Pregnancy and Heart Disease: Pregnancy-associated hypertension and peripartum cardiomyopathy

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are major complications in pregnancy worldwide and the number of patients who develop cardiac problems during pregnancy is increasing. Pregnancy associated hypertensive complications such as preeclampsia or peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) are potentially life-threatening heart diseases emerging during pregnancy, under delivery or in the first postpartal months in previously healthy women. Both disease entities display substantial morbidity and mortality in the acute phase.
Source: Current Problems in Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research