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Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy: Value of Echocardiography
- Source :
- Current Cardiology Reports. 12:250-256
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010.
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Abstract
- Cardiovascular disease in women during pregnancy poses particular challenges. It continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality and contributes to significant morbidity. Echocardiography is essential in characterizing the extent and effects of heart disease prior to, during, and after pregnancy. By understanding the physiologic adaptation in pregnancy with increases in heart rate, blood volume, and cardiac output, and decrease in vascular resistance, one can anticipate and recognize the effects of these changes on various cardiac lesions. Cardiomyopathy, severe, obstructive valvular disease, aortic dilation due to Marfan's disease, and cyanotic congenital heart disease are poorly tolerated in pregnancy. These disorders can be readily distinguished from normal structural changes of pregnancy and their severity assessed by echocardiography. Cardiovascular disease in women of reproductive age requires careful, multidisciplinary management by obstetric and medical teams ideally beginning preconception and continuing through the postpartum period.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Cardiac output
Heart Diseases
Heart disease
Cardiomyopathy
Disease
Heart Rate
Pregnancy
Internal medicine
Heart rate
medicine
Humans
Cardiac Output
Ultrasonography
Blood Volume
business.industry
Hemodynamics
medicine.disease
Adaptation, Physiological
United States
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cardiology
Vascular resistance
Female
Vascular Resistance
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Postpartum period
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15343170 and 15233782
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Cardiology Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b1f01c539a929d68acbdb02295dfd90c