Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of nonobstetric maternal morbidity and
mortality. Early diagnosis and appropriate care can lead to prevention of complications and …

Aims Data regarding pregnancy outcome in women with congenital heart disease (CHD) are
limited. Methods and results In 1802 women with CHD, 1302 completed pregnancies were …

Introduction Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common cardiac disorder in
pregnancy in the western world (around 80%). Due to improvements in surgical …

Objectives Adequate prepregnancy prediction of maternal cardiovascular and offspring risk
is important for counselling and management of pregnancy in women with congenital heart …

Investigation of trends and outcomes in heart disease (HD) and pregnancy has been limited.
We chose to identify the prevalence, trends, and outcomes of pregnant women with different …

Background We conducted a prospective observational survey of pregnant women with
cardiac disease. The aim was to analyse and present the mode of delivery, outcome, and …

BACKGROUND: Prediction of adverse maternal and neonatal events in women with heart
disease is not well established. We aimed to assess cardiac, obstetrical and neonatal …

Cardiac disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in pregnant and post-
partum women, although progress has been made, with specialist joint obstetric–cardiology …

Objective To assess performance of risk stratification schemes in predicting adverse cardiac
outcomes in pregnant women with congenital heart disease (CHD) and to compare these …

Background: Heart disease in pregnancy is the leading cause of non-obstetric maternal
death. Few Brazilian studies have assessed the impact of heart disease during pregnancy …