What is the clinical evidence from this study?

Study design: Review. Population: Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy.

What does this research mean for the field?

Pregnancy in women with pulmonary hypertension presents heterogeneous, high-risk hemodynamic challenges that require phenotype-specific multidisciplinary management, particularly during the vulnerable peripartum and early postpartum periods. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To review the hemodynamic stress, phenotype-specific maternal and fetal risks, delivery strategies, and multidisciplinary monitoring protocols for pulmonary hypertension during pregnancy.

September 15, 2026Journal of Cardiovascular ImagingOpen Access

Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy: hemodynamic challenges, maternal risk, and multidisciplinary management

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Key result

Pregnancy in women with PH remains high-risk and demands individualized multidisciplinary peripartum care.

Why the study?

Pulmonary hypertension during pregnancy remains high risk because normal gestational cardiovascular adaptation can exceed right ventricular-pulmonary circulation reserve, with heterogeneous risks across PH phenotypes.

Population

Pregnant women with pulmonary hypertension

Design

Review

Authors

SCSung‐A ChangHeart Failure & Transplant

Discussion

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Implication

Supports multidisciplinary peripartum care with echocardiographic surveillance in pulmonary hypertension; leaves open standardized protocols for prospective validation.

Key Points

To review the hemodynamic stress, phenotype-specific maternal and fetal risks, delivery strategies, and multidisciplinary monitoring protocols for pulmonary hypertension during pregnancy.
Narrative review synthesizing pathophysiology, contemporary clinical outcomes, echocardiographic monitoring, and perioperative care protocols for pregnant individuals with pulmonary hypertension.
Normal gestational increases in plasma volume and cardiac output impose unsustainable pressure overload on the right ventricle due to fixed or elevated pulmonary vascular resistance.
The first 24 to 72 hours postpartum represents a critical period of hemodynamic stress driven by autotransfusion and extracellular fluid shifts, precipitating right ventricular failure, hypoxemia, or circulatory collapse.
Right ventricular dilatation causes adverse ventricular interdependence by shifting the interventricular septum leftward, reducing left ventricular filling, preload, and systemic output.

PICO

Population

Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy

Pregnancy in women with pulmonary hypertension requires individualized risk assessment based on phenotype, disease severity, and right ventricular function, with intensive multidisciplinary monitoring particularly during delivery and the early postpartum period.

Cite This Study

Sung‐A Chang (2026) conducted a review in Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy. Pregnancy in women with pulmonary hypertension remains a high-risk condition requiring individualized risk assessment, multidisciplinary care, and careful peripartum management.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa9017deed42882c1fc193d https://doi.org/10.1186/s44348-026-00096-3

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September 15, 2026Journal of Cardiovascular ImagingOpen Access

Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy: hemodynamic challenges, maternal risk, and multidisciplinary management

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Key result

Pregnancy in women with PH remains high-risk and demands individualized multidisciplinary peripartum care.

Why the study?

Population

Pregnant women with pulmonary hypertension

Design

Review

Authors

SCSung‐A ChangHeart Failure & Transplant

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Supports multidisciplinary peripartum care with echocardiographic surveillance in pulmonary hypertension; leaves open standardized protocols for prospective validation.

Key Points

To review the hemodynamic stress, phenotype-specific maternal and fetal risks, delivery strategies, and multidisciplinary monitoring protocols for pulmonary hypertension during pregnancy.
Narrative review synthesizing pathophysiology, contemporary clinical outcomes, echocardiographic monitoring, and perioperative care protocols for pregnant individuals with pulmonary hypertension.
Normal gestational increases in plasma volume and cardiac output impose unsustainable pressure overload on the right ventricle due to fixed or elevated pulmonary vascular resistance.
The first 24 to 72 hours postpartum represents a critical period of hemodynamic stress driven by autotransfusion and extracellular fluid shifts, precipitating right ventricular failure, hypoxemia, or circulatory collapse.
Right ventricular dilatation causes adverse ventricular interdependence by shifting the interventricular septum leftward, reducing left ventricular filling, preload, and systemic output.

PICO

Population

Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy

Cite This Study

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa9017deed42882c1fc193d https://doi.org/10.1186/s44348-026-00096-3

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