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Careful medical management and surgical correction enable many women with congenital heart disease to tolerate pregnancy and have healthy infants, despite inheritable risks to the offspring.
Highlights that with appropriate medical and surgical management, successful pregnancy outcomes are possible for women with congenital heart disease.
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Supports individualized counseling for pregnancy in congenital heart disease; leaves open need for prospective registries on long-term outcomes.
With careful medical management, many women with congenital heart disease—even those in the highest risk group—can tolerate pregnancy and have healthy infants. Surgical correction of congenital cardiac anomalies has made a major contribution in this respect, although inheritable characteristics of the parental disease may still pose some risk for the offspring.
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Ruth Whittemore (1983) studied this question. Careful medical management and surgical correction enable many women with congenital heart disease to tolerate pregnancy and have healthy infants, despite inheritable risks to the offspring.
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