Cardiac Complications during Pregnancy Related to Parity in Women with Congenital Heart Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the frequency of cardiac complications during pregnancy related to parity in women with congenital heart defects.

Methods

A retrospective tertiary single-center study at the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Centre that followed 307 women with congenital heart disease during the years 1997-2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ma-ternal cardiac complications were noted for each pregnancy using medical and obstetric records. The CARPREG I and modified WHO (mWHO) risk classifications were used. Twin pregnancies, miscarriages before gestational week 13, and pregnancy terminations were excluded.

Results

Five hundred seventy-one deliveries and 9 late miscarriages were analyzed. The mean parity was 1.74 per woman (range 1-8). Eighty-four (14.6%) maternal cardiac co

SUBMITTER: Furenas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592600 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature