Pregnancy outcomes and cardiac complications in women with mechanical, bioprosthetic and homograft valves

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-253

  Sadler, Lynn ^a   McCowan, Lesley ^a   White, Harvey ^a   Stewart, Alistair ^a   Bracken, Michael ^a   North, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART DISEASE; HEART VALVE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0033968044     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2000.tb11696.x     Document Type: Article

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