Cardiac disease in pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 429-459

  Klein, Laura L ^a   Galan, Henry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADENOSINE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ERGOMETRINE; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NARCOTIC AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINAMIDE; PROSTACYCLIN; QUINIDINE; RITODRINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VASODILATOR AGENT; WARFARIN;

ACIDOSIS; ANESTHESIA; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; APNEA; BONE DISEASE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVERSION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DIURESIS; DORSAL MIDLINE DYSPLASIA; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPLASIA; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; EMBRYOPATHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIPHYSEAL STIPPLING; EPIPHYSIS; FETAL HEMORRHAGE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS RISK; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VALVE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPLASIA; HYPOTENSION; JAUNDICE; LIMB HYPOPLASIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MARFAN SYNDROME; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; MIDLINE CEREBELLAR ATROPHY; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NASAL HYPOPLASIA; NERVE INJURY; NEUROTOXICITY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PAIN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERFUSION; PLACENTAL HYPOPERFUSION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERUS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VENTRAL MIDLINE DYSPLASIA; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 2942652633     PISSN: 08898545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ogc.2004.03.001     Document Type: Review

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