Key result
Adequate prenatal care and understanding of cardiovascular changes have contributed to falling maternal mortality among pregnant women with heart disease.
Why the study?
Does adequate prenatal care improve outcomes in pregnant women with cardiac disease?
Population
Pregnant women with cardiac disease
Design
Review
Authors
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Supports prioritizing prenatal care in cardiac pregnancies; leaves open need for prospective trials to confirm causality.
Does adequate prenatal care improve outcomes in pregnant women with cardiac disease?
Adequate prenatal care and understanding of physiologic cardiovascular changes during pregnancy have significantly reduced maternal mortality in women with heart disease.
W. A. Horowitz (1955) conducted a review in Cardiac disease in pregnancy. Prenatal care was evaluated on Maternal mortality. Adequate prenatal care and understanding of cardiovascular changes have contributed to falling maternal mortality among pregnant women with heart disease.
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