Cardiac disease in pregnancy and regurgitant valvular lesions
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Regurgitant Valvular Lesions During Pregnancy
- Usually tolerated very well during pregnancy
- Severity may decrease during pregnancy due to drop in systemic vascular resistance
- Vasodilators only if systemic HTN (avoid ACE-inhibitors)
- Antibiotic prophylaxis important if infection suspected