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Pregnancy in Women With a Mechanical Heart Valve: Data of the European Society of Cardiology Registry of Pregnancy and Cardiac Disease (ROPAC).

Author(s): Iris M van Hagen, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink, Titia P E Ruys, Waltraut M. Merz, Sorel Goland, Harald Gabriel, Malgorzata Lelonek, Olga Trojnarska, Wael Abdulrahman Al Mahmeed, Hajnalka Olga Balint, Zeinab Attia Ashour, Helmut Baumgartner, Eric Boersma, Mark R Johnson, Roger Hall, Aldo Pietro Maggioni

Publication date: 2015-07-14

Journal: Circulation

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Keywords: pregnancy, thrombosis, prostheses and implants, heart valves, heart defects, congenital

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Pregnant women with a mechanical heart valve (MHV) are at a heightened risk of a thrombotic event, and their absolute need for adequate anticoagulation puts them at considerable risk of bleeding and, with some anticoagulants, fetotoxicity.

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DOI:: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015242

PubMed ID:: 26100109

Keywords: pregnancy,thrombosis,prostheses and implants,heart valves,heart defects, congenital

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Keywords: pregnancy, thrombosis, prostheses and implants, heart valves, heart defects, congenital

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