American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 3 , Pages 474-480 , March 2009

Late cardiac outcomes after pregnancy in women with congenital aortic stenosis

  • Nikolaos Tzemos, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Candice K. Silversides, MD, SM

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Jack M. Colman, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Judith Therrien, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Sir M B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Gary D. Webb, MD

      Affiliations

    • Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Centre, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Jennifer Mason, RN

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Evelyn Cocoara

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Mathew Sermer, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Samuel C. Siu, MD, SM

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto Pregnancy and Heart Disease Research Program and Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults, Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Division of Cardiology (SCS), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Samuel Siu, MD, C6-005, University Hospital, 339 Windermere Road, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5A5.

Received 15 August 2008 ,Accepted 26 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.10.020

American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 3 , Pages 474-480 , March 2009

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