Pocket Guidelines on CVD and Pregnancy

Publication Date: 2025
Chairpersons: Julie De Backer, Kristina H. Haugaa

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