An audit of pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: A five-year experience

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 216-221

  Mazibuko, B ^a   Ramnarain, H ^a   Moodley, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Maternal and foetal outcomes; Prosthetic heart valves

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; EMBRYOPATHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FETUS WASTAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN DEATH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CLINICAL AUDIT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; WARFARIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861305593     PISSN: 19951892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5830/CVJA-2012-022     Document Type: Article

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