EDUCATION IN HEART

Congenital heart disease

Pregnancy in heart disease

S A Thorne

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Correspondence to:
Dr Sara A Thorne
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; sara.thorne@uhb.nhs.uk

Keywords: pregnancy; congenital heart disease; cardiomyopathy

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Heart disease is the joint most common cause of maternal death in the UK.¹ The most common cardiac causes of death involve cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension (fig 1).

View larger version (20K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1 Cardiac causes of maternal deaths in the UK: confidential enquiry into maternal deaths 1997–99 (total maternal deaths = 409, cardiac deaths = 41).1

 

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is infrequently associated with maternal death, but forms the greatest workload in a cardiac antenatal clinic and may be associated with significant maternal morbidity. The population of adults with CHD is growing rapidly both in numbers and complexity of disease. There were an estimated 133 000 adults with CHD in the UK in 2000, 10 000 with complex disease; the population is expected to grow to 166 000 by 2010 with a 50% increase in those with complex conditions. Half this population are women, the majority of whom are well enough . . . [Full text of this article]

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