The author gives several cases from his practice, in which mitral stenosis was a serious complication of pregnancy. According to the author, the doctor must set himself an immutable rule - to make a thorough examination of the heart in every case of pregnancy that comes across to him. If there is a narrowing of the venous opening before the 5th month of pregnancy, it is rational to resort to an artificial miscarriage.
The New York Medical Journal and the American Medical Association.