Luciana Carvalho Martins, Claudia Maria Vilas Freire, Carolina Andrade Bragança Capuruçu, Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes, Cezar Alencar de Lima Rezende
BACKGROUND: Heart disease in pregnancy is the leading cause of non- obstetric maternal death. Few Brazilian studies have assessed the impact of heart disease during pregnancy. OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk factors associated with cardiovascular and neonatal complications. METHODS: We evaluated 132 pregnant women with heart disease at a High-Risk Pregnancy outpatient clinic, from January 2005 to July 2010. Variables that could influence the maternal-fetal outcome were selected: age, parity, smoking, etiology and severity of the disease, previous cardiac complications, cyanosis, New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class > II, left ventricular dysfunction/obstruction, arrhythmia, drug treatment change, time of prenatal care beginning and number of prenatal visits...
April 2016: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia