Management of pregnancy in the post-cardiac transplant patient

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 318-325

  Abdalla, Marwah ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart transplant; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTRACEPTION; DELIVERY; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS RISK; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NEWBORN INFECTION; PARENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TERATOGENESIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVOR;

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; DECISION MAKING; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84904414235     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2014.04.022     Document Type: Article

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