Mechanical Heart Valves in Pregnancy: A Sticky Business

Affiliations

¹ From Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine (K.E.E.), and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology (A.M.V.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. keconomy@partners.org.
² From Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine (K.E.E.), and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology (A.M.V.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Katherine E Economy et al. Circulation. 2015.

. 2015 Jul 14;132(2):79-81.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.017349. Epub 2015 Jun 22.

¹ From Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine (K.E.E.), and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology (A.M.V.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. keconomy@partners.org.
² From Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine (K.E.E.), and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology (A.M.V.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.

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Keywords: Editorials; heart valve prosthesis; pregnancy.

Comment on

Pregnancy in Women With a Mechanical Heart Valve: Data of the European Society of Cardiology Registry of Pregnancy and Cardiac Disease (ROPAC).
van Hagen IM, Roos-Hesselink JW, Ruys TP, Merz WM, Goland S, Gabriel H, Lelonek M, Trojnarska O, Al Mahmeed WA, Balint HO, Ashour Z, Baumgartner H, Boersma E, Johnson MR, Hall R; ROPAC Investigators and the EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) Team*. van Hagen IM, et al. Circulation. 2015 Jul 14;132(2):132-42. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015242. Epub 2015 Jun 22. Circulation. 2015. PMID: 26100109