Physiological impact of pregnancy on pre-existing medical conditions
Pregnancy as a stress test
- Pregnancy is a physiological stress test. Conditions with reserve tolerate it; conditions with fixed output, fixed filtration or immune instability do not
- The determinants of outcome are set before conception, not in the third trimester
- Disease activity at conception, baseline organ function, and the drug regimen
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