Pregnancy in women with valvular heart disease: a call to action to reduce morbidity and mortality in both mother and child

Heartbeat: focus on heart disease in women

“…Women with severe aortic stenosis also had high rates of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes (figure 3). Schmidt et al 4 acknowledge the challenges in caring for pregnant women with VHD but hope this data will be a ‘call for action’ to improve prenatal counselling, evaluation and treatment of women with VHD and to ensure that those with moderate to severe VHD are referred to centres with expertise in their management.…”