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Successful management of a pregnancy at high risk because of Eisenmenger reaction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Luciano Daliento ,
Liana Menti  and
Laura Di Lenardo
Luciano Daliento*
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Medical School, Padua, Italy
Liana Menti
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Medical School, Padua, Italy
Laura Di Lenardo
Affiliation:
Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics University of Padua, Medical School, Padua, Italy
*
Luciano Daliento, MD, FESC, FACC, Division of Cardiology, University of Padua Medical School, Via Giustiniani, 2, 35128 Padova, Italy. Tel. + 39 049 8211780; Fax +39 049 8762176; E-mail:[email protected]
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Abstract

Informed medical care, appropriate maternal and fetal monitoring, and cooperation among experienced obstetricians, anesthesists cardiologists, particularly during delivery and the early puerperium associated with psychological preparation of the mother, were the bases of the successful management of a pregnant 28-year-old woman at high risk because of the Eisenmenger reaction.

Keywords

pregnancycongenital heart diseasepulmonary hypertension
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , November 1999 , pp. 613 - 616
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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