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Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Address correspondence to Richard A. Steinbrook, MD, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Address e-mail to rsteinbr{at}caregroup.harvard.edu
IMPLICATIONS: During laparoscopic cholecystectomy in four pregnant women, we observed hemodynamic changes similar to those in nonpregnant patients (i.e., decreases in cardiac index together with increases in mean arterial blood pressure and systemic vascular resistance).
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