Why the study?
Does maternal cardiac disease impact perinatal outcomes such as birth weight, prematurity, and mortality?
Population
223 pregnancies complicated by maternal cardiac disease over a 5-year period at the Postgraduate Institute…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Perinatal period
Authors
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May warrant enhanced perinatal surveillance in symptomatic cases; hypothesis-generating for severity-stratified risk models pending prospective confirmation.
Does maternal cardiac disease impact perinatal outcomes such as birth weight, prematurity, and mortality?
Maternal cardiac disease during pregnancy is associated with fetal growth retardation, prematurity, and perinatal mortality, with outcomes directly proportional to the severity of maternal symptoms.
Jindal et al. (1988) studied this question.
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