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This case report describes a tragic outcome of adolescent pregnancy complicated by a pre-existing heart condition. A 15-year-old girl with a history of congenital heart disease and mechanical heart valve replacement became pregnant twice within a year. Due to risks of her anticoagulation medication, she had to switch to injections of heparin, which she did not take as prescribed. During her second pregnancy, she developed symptoms of heart failure and died at 17 weeks gestation from complications of her hea
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- Cheolong
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- EN