Cardiology in the Young

Table of Contents - November 1999 - Volume 9, Issue 06  

Brief Reports

Successful management of a pregnancy at high risk because of Eisenmenger reaction

Luciano Dalientoa1 c1, Liana Mentia1 and Laura Di Lenardoa2

a1 Division of Cardiology, Medical School, Padua, Italy

a2 Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics University of Padua, Medical School, Padua, Italy

Abstract

Informed medical care, appropriate maternal and fetal monitoring, and cooperation among experienced obstetricians, anesthesists cardiologists, particularly during delivery and the early puerperium associated with psychological preparation of the mother, were the bases of the successful management of a pregnant 28-year-old woman at high risk because of the Eisenmenger reaction.

(Accepted April 15 1999)

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c1 Luciano Daliento, MD, FESC, FACC, Division of Cardiology, University of Padua Medical School, Via Giustiniani, 2, 35128 Padova, Italy. Tel. + 39 049 8211780; Fax +39 049 8762176; E-mail:daliento@simtech.it

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