PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C W Pumphrey
AU  - T Fay
AU  - I Weir
TI  - Aortic dissection during pregnancy.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.55.1.106
DP  - 1986 Jan 01
TA  - British Heart Journal
PG  - 106--108
VI  - 55
IP  - 1
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/55/1/106.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/55/1/106.full
SO  - Heart1986 Jan 01; 55
AB  - Aortic dissection occurred in a nineteen year old woman during the thirty seventh week of pregnancy. Immediate elective delivery of a normal baby by caesarean section was followed by aortic root replacement 48 hours later. It was decided not to proceed immediately to operation on the aortic root because it was believed that the anticoagulation necessary for cardiopulmonary bypass might provoke dangerous haemorrhage from the raw placental site.