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Pregnancy and the heart
1Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London.
Hospital Medicine (London, England : 1998)
|May 13, 1999
Abstract:
Pregnancy places a huge demand on the heart. Such a burden cannot always be met by women with pre-existing heart disease. This article covers the important physiological changes of healthy pregnancy, and discusses how to assess and manage heart disease during pregnancy.