Pregnancy and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Bhatt, Ami B.; Yeh, Doreen DeFaria

doi:10.1016/j.ccl.2015.07.008

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“…MI risk is higher in multiparas and augments with age (8.8, 19.0 and 30.2 over 100,000 births respectively for women of [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], over 40 years old.…”

Section: Ischemic Heart Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pregnancy in this population needs an expert multidisciplinary team, including cardiologist, anesthesiologist, high risk obstetric and the possibility of keeping in touch with a center expert on CHD. 30 A sensitive discussion should be performed focusing on the long-term outlook for the mother, and, in some cases, on the possibility of limited longevity. Further multidisciplinary team should inform the patients about risks of miscarriage and poor fetal growth.…”

Section: Congenital Heart Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In case of symptoms or impaired left ventricular function, women should be recommended to avoid pregnancy and valvuloplasty or valvular replacement should be considered. 30 Congenital aortic stenosis is frequently associated with aortopathy so that a detailed imaging of the ascending aorta should be performed before pregnancy. Women with an aorta greater than 4.5 cm should be recommended to avoid pregnancy until correction.…”

Section: Aortic Stenosismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cardiac complications, such as arrhythmias and heart failure (the most frequent), thromboembolism, progressive aortic root dilatation, and endocarditis are pointed out in up to 12% of patients. 30 Right ventricle dysfunction and/or moderate to severe pulmonary regurgitation are risk factors for cardiovascular complications. History of ablation and cardiothoracic ratio on chest radiography are predictors of adverse events.…”

Section: Tetralogy Of Fallotmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…30 Preconception counselling represents an important moment to depict modality of transmission, maternal and fetal risk and outcomes.…”

Section: Marfan Syndromementioning

confidence: 99%

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Pregnancy and heart disease: what Internists should know

Gerloni

Panuccio²

2017

Ital J Med

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Cardiac disease can rarely complicate pregnancy (e.g., only 1 to 4% of pregnancies in the United States), but it still remains a major cause of non-obstetric maternal morbidity and mortality. 1 During pregnancy, a woman can suffer from heart failure because of a pre-existing heart disease or a new onset cardiopathy pregnancy correlated. Approximately 2% of pregnancies involve cardiac disease, and in the current era, most maternal disease is due to congenital heart disease (CHD).2 Currently cardiac surgery improvement of the last 50 years has permitted an increased number of survivors. Instead, in the past, rheumatic heart disease was the leading cause of heart failure in pregnancy.3,4 Further, with increasing maternal age, other etiologies of heart disease should not be ignored and, particularly, ischemic and hypertensive heart disease should be considered in an over forty pregnant women. 5 Physiology of normal pregnancyImportant hemodynamic changes appear during pregnancy and are responsible for heart failure in pregnant women with pre-existing heart disease. These changes begin early in pregnancy, generally during the first eight weeks, reach their peak during the late second trimester, and then remain relatively constant until delivery. 6 The plasma volume and red cell mass are the first major cardiocirculatory modification, actually they expand in the 8 th week and peak around 30 th week, with a net plasma volume gain of 1000-1600 mL, corresponding to 30-50% above baseline.7 A greater increase in intravascular volume compared to red cell mass results in the dilutional anemia of pregnancy. This aspect generally results at 30-34 weeks when plasma volume peaks in relation to red cell mass and is associated with sodium and water retention. Actually 1000 mEq of sodium and 6 liters of water are retained and distributed among amniotic fluid, fetus and intra and extracellular spaces.8 Further cardiac output increases to satisfy increase fetal and maternal metabolic needs. It can be estimated 30-50% above baseline levels during the entire pregnancy, but half of this change occurs by 8 th week. This relevant change is a consequence of blood volume augmentation, afterload reduction and maternal heart rate rise.9 Systemic Pregnancy and heart disease: what Internists should know ABSTRACTPregnant women with heart disease are increasing due to medical and surgical progress and, nowadays, congenital heart disease is the most frequent heart disease affecting these women. Pregnancy represents a considerable effort for an altered heart with negative consequences for life quality, disease progression and mortality. Risk differs a lot among patients and depends not only on the type of heart disease. Clinician should stratify risk and offer patients a correct pre-counselling and accurate follow-up. At the same time Clinician should be able to diagnose rapidly heart failure as some cardiopathies, such as peripartum cardiomyopathy, are related to pregnancy and produce symptoms that can be confused with normal pregnancy progression...

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“…MI risk is higher in multiparas and augments with age (8.8, 19.0 and 30.2 over 100,000 births respectively for women of [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], over 40 years old.…”

Section: Ischemic Heart Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Congenital Heart Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Aortic Stenosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tetralogy Of Fallotmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…30 Preconception counselling represents an important moment to depict modality of transmission, maternal and fetal risk and outcomes.…”

Section: Marfan Syndromementioning

confidence: 99%

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