Successful pregnancy in a patient with a double inlet left ventricle treated with a septation procedure.
Because of improved medical and surgical care, women with univentricular hearts may live to enter the reproductive years and become pregnant. Pregnancy in a woman with a history of a univentricular heart treated successfully with a septation repair can follow a favorable course if she is acyanotic without functional or cardiovascular compromise.
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Cardiology Division, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Va.
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D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome