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(Chest. 1954;25:150-153.)
© 1954 American College of Chest Physicians

Pregnancy in Heart Disease

JOHN F. BRIGGS M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Clinical Associate Professor Medicine, University of Minnesota.

There is little problem in the treatment of the patient who is pregnant and who suffers from heart disease. The physician should treat the heart disease as though the patient were not pregnant, and he should treat the pregnancy as though the patient did not have heart disease. In either condition the indications for treatment should be directed only to either the pregnancy or the heart disease. There is no heart disease which requires obstetrical interference. There is never an indication to interrupt a pregnancy or sterilize the patient because of heart disease.






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