High Blood Pressure & Pregnancy

High Blood Pressure & Pregnancy

Author: Dr. Robert Moore, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, High-Risk Pregnancy Most women of childbearing age do not have significant cardiac disease; however, in south Louisiana there are many young women who have a long-standing history of high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. Because of hypertension’s effects on pregnant women and their unborn babies, we manage these […]

Specialized Care for Special Pregnancy: Part 2

Specialized Care for Special Pregnancy: Part 2

After the successful in-utero surgery to place a pigtail catheter in our little girl’s chest wall, my wife, Abby, and I tried to go about the rest of the pregnancy with our fingers crossed that things would get better and that the difficult part was over. Unfortunately, the difficulties had really just begun. Around the […]