Successful pregnancy in a patient with a homograft aortic valve

Open Access

1 May 1970

journal article
case report
Published by BMJ in Heart

Vol. 32 (3) , 416-419
https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.32.3.416

Abstract

A case is described of a 27-year-old woman whose aortic valve was replaced by a homograft. Eighteen months after the operation she gave birth to a normal healthy girl.

Keywords

REPLACED
OLD
BIRTH
GIRL
GAVE
WOMAN
HEALTHY
SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCY
HOMOGRAFT

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