Category Pregnancy and Heart Diseases

Articles on heart disease during pregnancy — pre-pregnancy risk assessment, valve disease, peripartum cardiomyopathy and how cardiologists and obstetricians plan safe care for mother and baby.

Pregnancy and Heart Diseases

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A tremendously increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been found in women of childbearing age, with the presence of CVD in pregnant women posing a difficult clinical scenario in which the responsibility of the treating physician extends to the unborn…