Pregnancy and prosthetic heart valves

The Lancet

Volumn 344, Issue 8937, 1994, Pages 1643-1644

  Oakley, CeliaM ^a   Bignardi, G E ^b   Barrett, S ^b   Foale, R ^b   Spyrou, N ^b   Antretter, Herwig ^c   Bonatti, Johannes ^c  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Chirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; EMBRYOPATHY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

EID: 0028770784     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(94)90441-3     Document Type: Letter

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