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Cardiac disease in pregnancy
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois.
The Medical Clinics of North America
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
Pregnancy produces many hemodynamic alterations of the cardiovascular system. Consideration of these alterations must be given in the management of pregnant patients with cardiac disease. This article reviews the cardiovascular hemodynamic alterations of pregnancy, and the management of pregnant patients with specific cardiac lesions.