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Meticulous multidisciplinary antepartum and intrapartum care enables many patients with cardiac disorders to deliver healthy newborns, despite ongoing risks of maternal morbidity and mortality.
Optimal outcomes for pregnant patients with cardiac disease require meticulous care from a multidisciplinary team, though inherent risks of maternal morbidity and mortality remain.
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Multidisciplinary care may optimize outcomes in pregnant cardiac patients; leaves open need for prospective trials to guide protocols.
With meticulous antepartum and intrapartum care, including access to appropriate facilities and personnel, many patients with a cardiac disorder may deliver a healthy newborn without significant adverse maternal sequelae. It is also clear, however, that significant maternal morbidity and mortality will continue to occur in some of these patients, despite optimal care. In most cases, such care will be provided by a team including obstetricians, perinatologists, neonatologists, cardiologists, and anesthesiologists to ensure optimal outcome.
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Steven L. Clark (1993) conducted a review in Cardiac disease in pregnancy. Multidisciplinary antepartum and intrapartum care was evaluated. Meticulous multidisciplinary antepartum and intrapartum care enables many patients with cardiac disorders to deliver healthy newborns, despite ongoing risks of maternal morbidity and mortality.
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