Publication Date: 2004
Chairperson: Celia Oakley
Table of Contents
Introduction
Physiological changes during pregnancy
In general
- Pre-existing conditions which may confer high maternal risk
- Low maternal risk
- Maternal conditions causing high foetal risk
- Heart conditions which may develop in pregnancy or parturition
Congenital Heart Disease
- High risk patients
- Patients at low or moderate risk
Marfan syndrome and other inherited conditions affecting the aorta
Acquired valvular heart disease
- Mitral stenosis
- Aortic stenosis
- Heart valve prostheses
Cardiomyopathies
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
- Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Arrhythmias
Hypertensive disorders
- Pre-existing hypertension
- Pre-eclampsia
- Treatment of acute hypertension
