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. 2017 Feb 21;135(8):e50-e87.
doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000458. Epub 2017 Jan 12.

Management of Pregnancy in Patients With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association

Mary M Canobbio, Carole A Warnes, Jamil Aboulhosn, Heidi M Connolly, Amber Khanna, Brian J Koos, Seema Mital, Carl Rose, Candice Silversides, Karen Stout; American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; Council on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology; and Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research
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Management of Pregnancy in Patients With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association

Mary M Canobbio et al. Circulation. .

Abstract

Today, most female children born with congenital heart disease will reach childbearing age. For many women with complex congenital heart disease, carrying a pregnancy carries a moderate to high risk for both the mother and her fetus. Many such women, however, do not have access to adult congenital heart disease tertiary centers with experienced reproductive programs. Therefore, it is important that all practitioners who will be managing these women have current information not only on preconception counseling and diagnostic evaluation to determine maternal and fetal risk but also on how to manage them once they are pregnant and when to refer them to a regional center with expertise in pregnancy management.

Keywords: AHA Scientific Statements; heart defects, congenital; heart diseases; pregnancy.

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