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- Title
Maternal cardiac arrhythmias during pregnancy and lactation.
- Authors
Cordina, Rachael; McGuire, Mark A.
- Abstract
Arrhythmias occurring during pregnancy can cause significant symptoms and even death in mother and fetus. The management of these arrhythmias is complicated by the need to avoid harm to the fetus and neonate. It is useful to classify patients with arrhythmias into those with and without structural heart disease. Those with a primary electrical problem, but an otherwise normal heart, often tolerate rapid heart rates without compromise whereas patients with problems such as rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease or cardiomyopathy may quickly decompensate during an arrhythmia.
- Subjects
HEART diseases in pregnancy; ARRHYTHMIA; LACTATION disorders; FETAL death; NEWBORN infants; RHEUMATIC heart disease; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CONGENITAL heart disease; HEART beat
- Publication
Obstetric Medicine (1753-495X), 2010, Vol 3, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
1753-495X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1258/om.2009.090021