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Cardiac Surgery and Pregnancy

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Principles of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy

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It is most interesting to read the obstetrics textbooks of the late 1940s. Puerperal sepsis had been largely eliminated by the introduction of antibiotics, the treatment of the toxemias of pregnancy was becoming standardized and modern, and cesarean sections were no longer considered an obstetric failure. But few inroads had been made into the problem of correcting cardiac disease in women of reproductive age. Therefore, these textbooks contain long and detailed chapters on the management of cardiac disease during pregnancy. Cardiac disease was becoming (as it remains today) the most common non-obstetric cause of maternal mortality.

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  1. Kenneth L. Noller
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  1. Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Norbert Gleicher M.D. (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman) (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman)

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Norbert Gleicher M.D. (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman) (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman)

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Noller, K.L. (1985). Cardiac Surgery and Pregnancy. In: Gleicher, N. (eds) Principles of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2415-7_115

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