The Importance of Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Pregnancy Heart Team in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy

Garima Sharma; Wendy Ying; Candice K. Silversides

doi:10.1016/j.ccl.2020.09.002

The Importance of Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Pregnancy Heart Team in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy

Garima Sharma, Wendy Ying, Candice K. Silversides

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Pregnancy-related maternal morbidity and mortality is increasing because of complications from cardiovascular disease. Pregnancy results in physiologic changes that can adversely impact the cardiovascular system and lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes. A multidisciplinary pregnancy heart team is essential to safely navigate women with heart disease through pregnancy. This role of the pregnancy heart team is to offer preconception counseling, determine pregnancy risks and educate women about those risks, develop a comprehensive antenatal and delivery plan, and ensure appropriate postpartum follow-up. These steps are important to improve cardiovascular outcomes in pregnancy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	7-19
Number of pages	13
Journal	Cardiology clinics
Volume	39
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccl.2020.09.002
State	Published - Feb 2021

Keywords

Adverse pregnancy outcomes
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular risk
Pregnancy heart team

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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