0 a sign that someone should not continue with a particular medicine or treatment because it is or might be harmful
Syphilis contracted late in the pregnancy, and tuberculosis, are contraindications, owing to the danger of the mother infecting the child.
Neither cross-sectional echocardiography nor aortography is entirely reliable in identifying those patterns of the coronary arteries which are a contraindication to the arterial switch operation.
Finally, the subjects were screened for medical contraindications to the method, and if these were absent, the contraceptive was then provided.
However, the multifocal disease is only a relative contraindication, that is it could be applied in well-selected patients.
This excluded persons with medical contraindications to exercise, but not those with dementia.
First, to be treated as a clinical "need," a contraindication requires a clear label that ideally would also indicate a relevant remedy.
A temporary contraindication is the small size of the left ventricle in deeply cyanosed children.
Regular follow up is essential, the gradient itself is no contraindication for a pregnancy.