Pregnancy-related aortic aneurysm and dissection in patients with Marfan's syndrome: Medical and surgical management during pregnancy and after delivery

Medicina

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 604-606

  Vranes, Mile ^a,b   Velinovic, Milos ^a,b   Kovacevic Kostic, Natasa ^a   Savic, Dragutin ^a,b   Nikolic, Dejan ^c   Karan, Radmila ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Aortic dissection; Cesarean delivery; Marfan's syndrome; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856657180     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina47110087     Document Type: Article

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