Population
Women with structural heart disease considering or experiencing pregnancy
Design
Review
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May support enhanced preconception counseling; leaves open prospective validation of risk models in structural heart disease.
Systematic risk assessment in pregnant women with structural heart disease is essential, as features like poor functional status, prior heart failure, and pulmonary hypertension pose exceedingly high risks for adverse maternal and fetal outcomes.
Moghbeli et al. (2008) studied this question.
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