Pregnancy following major thoracic surgery for tuberculosis

Folsome, Clair E.; Kuntze, C.Donald

doi:10.1016/0002-9378(53)90373-1

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“…The literature on pregnancy and delivery following major thoracic operations is con fined to short-term surveys of small groups of patients [1][2][3][4]. For this reason, it seemed justified and significant to report on the mor bidity, mortality and life expectancy of these 80 cases, resulting from a national in vestigation set up in the Netherlands in 1955 [5],…”

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The Postpneumonectomy Mother

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1980

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A retrospective report is presented on the quality of life and the life expectancy of 80 women who gave birth to totally 196 children after pneumonectomy. The women were operated upon in the period 1947–1954 and followed since in regular intervals. Pecularities concerning pregnancy, delivery and motherhood in their relation to the pulmonary function are discussed. It is concluded that a pneumonectomy for a nonprogressive disease of one lung in a woman of childbearing age is associated with a nearly normal obstetric history and life expectancy

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confidence: 99%