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Cardiac disease is emerging as a major indirect cause of maternal death, with late maternal deaths often underreported due to the standard 42-day postpartum reporting limit.
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Late maternal death due to cardiovascular disease is underreported and requires extended postpartum follow-up and joint cardiac-obstetric care.
Globally, cardiac disease is emerging as an important indirect cause of maternal death. Cardiac conditions can be pre-existing, such as the case with rheumatic heart disease or congenital heart disease which can be unmasked by the increased haemodynamic load in pregnancy, or they can be caused by pregnancy, e.g. hypertensive disorders or peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM).
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Karen S Sliwa (2017) conducted an editorial in Maternal death due to cardiovascular disease. Cardiac disease is emerging as a major indirect cause of maternal death, with late maternal deaths often underreported due to the standard 42-day postpartum reporting limit.
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