Z. J. Lusk. Mitral stenosis in pregnancy (New-York Medical Journal, 1893, January 14). Contraction of venous opening in pregnant women

Abstract

The author gives several cases from his practice, in which mitral stenosis was a serious complication of pregnancy. According to the author, the doctor must set himself an immutable rule - to make a thorough examination of the heart in every case of pregnancy that comes across to him. If there is a narrowing of the venous opening before the 5th month of pregnancy, it is rational to resort to an artificial miscarriage.

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