Maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant women with pulmonary hypertension: The impact of left heart disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) due to left heart disease (World Health Organization (WHO) Group 2 PH) is the largest PH subgroup, however most reports of PH in pregnancy focus on patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group 1 PH). We evaluated pregnancy outcomes across WHO PH subgroups.

Methods

We performed a retrospective single center cohort study of maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant women with PH (2004-2018).

Results

We analyzed outcomes of 70 pregnancies in 70 women with PH (30 ± 6 years-old), classified as WHO Group 1 PH (12 (17%)), Group 2 PH (45 (64%)), Group 3 PH (4 (6%)) and Group 5 PH (9 (13%)). Although no peripartum death occurred, 3 (4.3%) women with WHO Group 2 PH had late mortality (7 ± 4 months post- partum). Additionally, 33

SUBMITTER: Marshall WH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10335194 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature