Pulmonary hypertension during pregnancy: Management of two cases

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 281, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 431-434

  Paternoster, Delia Maria ^b   Pascoli, Irene ^a   Parotto, Matteo ^a   Cester, Maddalena ^a   Nanhornguè, Kimta ^a   Merati, Elisa ^b   Arrigoni, Silvia ^b   Garofalo, Greta ^b   Bertolino, Maria ^b   Micaglio, Massimo ^a   Ripa, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cesarean section; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

BISOPROLOL; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NADROPARIN; OXYGEN; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HANCOCK VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; OBSTETRIC CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REPLACEMENT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950629817     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-009-1202-1     Document Type: Article

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