Heart Valve Prostheses in Pregnancy: Outcomes for Women and Their Infants

Heart Valve Prostheses in Pregnancy: Outcomes for Women and Their Infants

BACKGROUND As the prognosis of women with prosthetic heart valves improves, an increasing number are contemplating and undertaking pregnancy. Accurate knowledge of perinatal outcomes is essential, assisting counseling and guiding care. The aims of this study were to assess outcomes in a contemporary population of women with heart valve prostheses undertaking pregnancy and to compare outcomes fo...

Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Cardiac Diseases Presenting to Shariati Hospital Cardiovascular Department from 21st March 2017 to 20th March 2018

Background: Cardiac diseases are considered as major cause of maternal mortality during pregnancy and account for about 10% of all maternal mortalities. Cardiac diseases cause complications for both mother and fetus. In this study, we evaluated the effects of cardiac diseases on pregnancy and vice versa. Three groups of complications were examined: complication of maternal heart (serious and li...

Prosthetic heart valves in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

BACKGROUND Advances in surgical technique, prosthetic heart valve design, and anticoagulation have contributed to an overall improvement in morbidity and mortality in women with heart valve prostheses as well as increased feasibility of pregnancy. Previous work investigating the pregnancies of women with prosthetic valves has been directed largely toward understanding the influence of anticoagu...

Anti-Coagulation During Pregnancy in Women with Mechanical Heart Valves: A Prospective Study

Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnant Women with a Prosthetic Mechanical Heart Valve

BACKGROUND Pregnancy is associated with several cardiocirculatory changes that can significantly impact underlying cardiac disease. These changes include an increase in cardiac output, sodium, and water retention leading to blood volume expansion, and reductions in systemic vascular resistance and systemic blood pressure. In addition, pregnancy results in a hypercoagulable state that increases ...