Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease

This book describes the risks facing patients with congenital heart disease who wish to become pregnant and the ways in which these patients can best be followed and treated during pregnancy. In addition, the organization of care around the delivery is discussed in detail. The first section provides...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Roos-Hesselink, Jolien W. (Editor), Johnson, Mark R. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesCongenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults,
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319389134
ISSN2364-6659
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-38913-4
Physical DescriptionX, 280 p. 39 illus., 31 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Fetal Heart Disease
  • Contraception and Cardiovascular Disease
  • Pre-conception Counseling
  • Inheritance of Congenital Heart Disease
  • Care During Pregnancy
  • The Management of Labour and the Postpartum Period in CHD
  • Pregnancy in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot
  • Transposition of the Great Arteries
  • Shunt Lesions
  • Aortic Stenosis
  • Pregnancy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Aortopathy
  • Aortic Coarctation
  • Ebstein Anomaly
  • Fontan
  • Cyanotic lesions
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Pulmonic stenosis.