Iris M van Hagen, Sara A Thorne, Nasser Taha, Ghada Youssef, Amro Elnagar, Harald Gabriel, Yahia ElRakshy, Bernard Iung, Mark R Johnson, Roger Hall, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink
BACKGROUND: Cardiac disease is 1 of the major causes of maternal mortality. We studied pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatic mitral valve disease. METHODS: The Registry of Pregnancy and Cardiac Disease is an international prospective registry, and consecutive pregnant women with cardiac disease were included. Pregnancy outcomes in all women with rheumatic mitral valve disease and no prepregnancy valve replacement is described in the present study (n=390). A maternal cardiac event was defined as cardiac death, arrhythmia requiring treatment, heart failure, thromboembolic event, aortic dissection, endocarditis, acute coronary syndrome, and hospitalization for other cardiac reasons or cardiac intervention...
February 20, 2018: Circulation