Pregnancy and heart disease congenital heart disease
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Anjan K. Chakrabarti, M.D. [2]
Overview
The most common maternal cardiac disease in Western societies is now congenital heart disease. This includes a wide spectrum of abnormalities, which are delineated in this section. This is largely due in part to the fact that children born with congenital heart defects in Western societies are living to the ages at which they can bear children. This section will not detail those patients that have repaired congenital defects, which are highlighted in ****.