Pregnancy in Marfan syndrome after aortic root replacement: A case report and review of the literature

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 184-188

  Volach, Vania ^a   Elami, Amir ^a   Gilon, Dan ^a   Pollak, Arthur ^a   Ginosar, Yehuda ^a   Ezra, Yossef ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aortic root replacement; Marfan's; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MARFAN SYNDROME; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRALAZINE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 33746323328     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2006.00032.x     Document Type: Article

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