GESTATION OF PATIENTS WITH EISENMENGER’S SYNDROME: IS IT ALWAYS CONTRAINDICATED?

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The management of gestation and labor in a patient with Eisenmenger’s syndrome due to multiple defects of inter-ventricular septum was described. The possibility of gestation prolongation in the patient with the said pathology was discussed, supporting clinical-and-laboratory and instrumental criteria of the objective patient’s condition were proposed being worked out collectively and based on the individual course features of the disease and gestation.

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S. R. Mravyan

Moscow Regional Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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I. O. Shuginin

Moscow Regional Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Russian Federation

V. P. Pronina

M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Clinical and Research Institute (MONIKI)

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S. A. Terpigorev

M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Clinical and Research Institute (MONIKI)

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