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Cardiac Disease after Pregnancy: A Growing Problem
Author(s): Christina Y Aye , Henry Boardman , Paul Leeson Added: 3 years ago
Historically pregnancy has been viewed as only clinically relevant to women and for the relatively brief time from conception to the puerperium. However it is now clear that events during pregnancy have much longer-term implications, particularly for cardiovascular health, both for the mother and her offspring. Pregnancy complications such as hypertension and preterm birth appear to serve as a… View more

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Author(s): Birna Bjarnason-Wehrens , Sandra Schmitz , Sigrid Dordel Added: 3 years ago
Congenital malformations of the heart and vessels occur in five to nine per 1,000 live births.1,2 Some of these malformations (10–15%) do not require correction. Between 70 and 80% of defects can be corrected, and an increasing number of therapeutic procedures can be performed by interventional catheterisation techniques, avoiding the need for open heart surgery.1 Definitive therapeutic… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
The Fourth Trimester: Pregnancy as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease
Author(s): Pensée Wu , Ki Park , Martha Gulati Added: 2 years ago

Demographic
Author(s): Robert Campbell , Peter Fischbach , Patricio Frias , et al Added: 3 years ago
White and Eustis were the first to document congenital complete heart block (CCHB) with electrocardiogram in 1921. Until the 1950s, CCHB without structural heart disease was considered rare and benign. CCHB is estimated to complicate one in 15,000–22,000 live births; however, the true incidence of CCHB is unknown as there is an association with structural congenital heart disease (CHD) with a… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
Factors Related to Maternal Adverse Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Cardiac Disease in Low-resource Settings
Author(s): Philippe Amubuomombe Poli , Elkanah Omenge Orang’o , Ann Mwangi , et al Added: 3 years ago
Pregnancy in women with cardiac disease is associated with life-threatening complications. Although there has been progress in the field, cardiac disease in pregnancy remains among the leading causes of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.1–3 Many studies have shown correlations between pregnancy-related haemodynamic changes and cardiac events.4–7 However, few studies have investigated… View more

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Heterogeneous Populations
Risk of Complications During Pregnancy in Women with Congenital Aortic Valve Stenosis
Author(s): Els Troost , Werner Budts Added: 3 years ago
The prevalence of heart disease in pregnant women is estimated to be between 0.1 and 4%; although the prevalence has not changed for decades, the relative contribution of different types of heart disease varies according to the study population and the study period. Nowadays, in developed countries the largest group of females with an underlying heart disease consists of women with congenital… View more

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