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Pocket Guidelines on CVD and Pregnancy

ESC Pocket Guidelines

Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology
Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease
Non-cardiac Surgery\Pre-surgical Assessment

Publication Date: 2025

Chairpersons: Julie De Backer, Kristina H. Haugaa

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Pregnancy Heart Team
    • Pre-pregnancy counselling and family planning
    • Diagnostic methods in pregnancy
    • Timing and mode of delivery
    • Delivery in women on anticoagulants
  • Drugs during pregnancy and lactation
    • Anticoagulants
  • Pregnancy in women with cardiomyopathies and primary arrhythmia syndromes
    • Cardiomyopathies
    • Primary arrhythmia syndromes
  • Peripartum cardiomyopathy
  • Pregnancy in women with aortopathies
  • Pregnancy in women with known congenital heart disease
  • Pregnancy in women with pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy and post-partum
    • Prevention of venous thromboembolism
    • Management of acute venous thromboembolism
    • Treatment of venous thromboembolism in pregnancy
  • Pregnancy in women with acquired heart disease
    • Acute chest pain and coronary artery disease in pregnancy
    • Hypertensive disorders
    • Arrhythmias
    • Supraventricular arrhythmias
    • Ventricular arrhythmias
    • Cardiac arrest
    • Valvular heart disease
    • Heart failure
  • Special populations
  • Long-term effects of adverse pregnancy outcomes
    • Women's Heart Clinics