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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