Pregnancy and heart disease epidemiology and demographics

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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

• Approximately 1-4% of pregnancies in the United States involve maternal cardiovascular disease.

Epidemiology in Developed and Developing Countries

• Increasing numbers of women with congenital heart disease are now reaching childbearing age.
• Congential heart disease is now the most common form of heart disease complicating pregnancy in the United States.
• Rheumatic heart disease still predominates in developing countries and in immigrant populations in the United States.
• 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.
• In a prospective study of 562 pregnant women with heart disease (aged 28 ± years) at 13 Canadian cardiac and obstetric teaching hospitals, a primary cardiac event occurred in 80 completed pregnancies (13%), the most common complications being pulmonary edema and cardiac arrhythmia.

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