Pregnancy in Congenital Heart Diseases

Abstract

Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) affect 0.8 to 1.5% of general population. With increase in awareness and medical services, more number of patients with CHDs have entered into adulthood. One of the peculiar physiologic changes in women is going through pregnancy. Misconceptions are common in women with CHD. This write-up is to provide some brief information about CHD patients going through pregnancy. General cardiovascular risk and individual disease-related risks are discussed.

Cardio-obstetrics in India: The Mission, the Scope and the Road Ahead

“…These clinics would cater to the needs of preconceptional risk assessment and counseling in patients with cardiac ailments, cardiovascular evaluation and diagnosis during pregnancy, diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy-associated hypertension and preeclampsia, management of native and prosthetic valvular disease, congenital heart disease (naive as well post procedural), cardiomyopathies (peripartum, dilated, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), and arrhythmias in pregnancy. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] It would also review methods for fertility control for the patient with cardiac disease and the risk of cardiac drugs during pregnancy and lactation. Moreover, the diagnosis and management of acute catastrophies as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism during pregnancy, acute myocardial infarction, and spontaneous coronary dissection during pregnancy could have an active involvement of cardio-obstetrics team.…”