| Literature DB >> 17572244 |
Willem Drenthen1, Petronella G Pieper, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink, Willem A van Lottum, Adriaan A Voors, Barbara J M Mulder, Arie P J van Dijk, Hubert W Vliegen, Sing C Yap, Philip Moons, Tjark Ebels, Dirk J van Veldhuisen.
Abstract
A search of peer-reviewed literature was conducted to identify reports that provide data on complications associated with pregnancy in women with structural congenital heart disease (CHD). This review describes the outcome of 2,491 pregnancies, including 377 miscarriages (15%) and 114 elective abortions (5%). Important cardiac complications were seen in 11% of the pregnancies. Obstetric complications do not appear to be more prevalent. In complex CHD, premature delivery rates are high, and more children are small for gestational age. The offspring mortality was high throughout the spectrum and was related to the relatively high rate of premature delivery and recurrence of CHD.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17572244 DOI： 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.03.027
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Coll Cardiol ISSN： 0735-1097 Impact factor: 24.094