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Heart and pregnancy

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2014

Abstract

This chapter in the web textbook on cardiology concerns the issue of cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy. The chapters describe typical changes in systemic hemodynamics, hemocoagulation and metabolism during pregnancy, general principles of diagnosis of heart disease in pregnancy, division of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy according to the risk estimation for mother and fetus, general principles of timing and the mode of delivery and the description of selected cardiovascular diseases together whith cardiac drugs and their use in pregnancy.