Pregnancy Physiology Overview
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How does maternal cardiac output change during pregnancy?
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What is the main function of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in early pregnancy?
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What causes the physiologic (dilutional) anemia of pregnancy?
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Plasma volume rises more than red cell mass, so hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration fall even though total red cells increase.
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