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| {{Pregnancy and heart disease}}
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| {{CMG}}; '''Associate Editor In Chief:''' {{AC}}
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| ==Overview==
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| *Approximately 1-4% of pregnancies in the United States involve maternal cardiovascular disease.
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| ==Epidemiology in Developed and Developing Countries==
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| *Increasing numbers of women with congenital heart disease are now reaching childbearing age.
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| *Congential heart disease is now the most common form of heart disease complicating pregnancy in the United States.
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| *Rheumatic heart disease still predominates in developing countries and in immigrant populations in the United States.
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| *Maternal death during pregnancy in women with heart disease is rare; conditions that are associated with increased mortality include Eisenmenger syndrome, pulmonary vascular obstructive disease, and Marfan syndrome with aortopathy.<ref name="pmid11359761">{{cite journal| author=Siu SC, Colman JM| title=Heart disease and pregnancy. | journal=Heart | year= 2001 | volume= 85 | issue= 6 | pages= 710-5 | pmid=11359761 | doi= | pmc=PMC1729784 | url= }} </ref>
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| *In a prospective study of 562 pregnant women with heart disease (aged 28+/-6 years) at 13 Canadian cardiac and obstetric teaching hospitals, a primary cardiac event occurred in 80 completed pregnan- cies (13%), the most common being pulmonary edema and cardiac arrhythmia.<ref name="pmid11479246">{{cite journal| author=Siu SC, Sermer M, Colman JM, Alvarez AN, Mercier LA, Morton BC et al.| title=Prospective multicenter study of pregnancy outcomes in women with heart disease. | journal=Circulation | year= 2001 | volume= 104 | issue= 5 | pages= 515-21 | pmid=11479246 | doi= | pmc= | url= }} </ref>
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Cardiology]]
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| [[Category:Obstetrics]]
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| [[Category:Disease]]
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