Tragic mum, 33, died hours after giving birth to baby girl via C-section
An inquest heard that doctors missed the chance to further investigate high blood pressure in Susan McLoughlin, 33, who died after giving birth to her fourth child via C-section
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Susan McLoughlin pictured with her third son Jamie (Image: Jason McKevitt/Liverpool Echo)
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Susan McLoughlin had three boys.
An inquest has heard that Doctors missed the chance to further investigate high blood pressure in a Liverpool mum who died just hours after giving birth to her fourth child via C-section.
Susan McLoughlin, 33, died shortly after giving birth to her first daughter, Leila, at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield in October 2019.
In April 2019, she had undergone a heart test while pregnant at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool, but the abnormal results were not followed up, Sheffield Coroner s Court heard.
A little girl was all Ms McLoughlin and her partner, Jason McKevitt, had ever wanted , the inquest was told.
Doctors missed serious heart condition which killed young mum moments after she gave birth
Susan McLoughlin died shortly after giving birth to her fourth child
20:08, 29 APR 2021
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Susan McLoughlin, from Netherton, with her third son Jamie (Image: Wendy Lunt)
Doctors missed multiple chances to diagnose a serious heart condition before it killed a young mum after she gave birth to a baby girl. Susan McLoughlin, 33, suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after undergoing a caesarean section on October 21, 2019, leaving her devastated partner Jason McKevitt to raise their four children alone. Nine days before her death Susan, from Netherton, had been diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a rare and dangerous form of high blood pressure which damages the right side of the heart and arteries in the lungs.