Pericardiectomy in pregnancy
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Pericardiectomy in pregnancy.
The range of cardiac surgery in pregnancy has been extended from procedures such as mitral valvulotomy and repair of aortic coarctation to include a variety of 'open-heart' operations undertaken with the aid of cardiopulmonary bypass (Ueland, 1965; Zitnik, Brandenburg, Sheldon, and Wallace, 1969). Rheumatic and congenital lesions are the forms of heart disease most frequently encountered in pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.25.5.627