Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Roos-Hesselink, Jolien W. (Editor), Johnson, Mark R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Obstetrics.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.; Cardiac Surgery.

This book describes the risks facing patients with congenital heart disease who wish to become pregnant and the ways in which these patients can best be followed and treated during pregnancy. In addition, the organization of care around the delivery is discussed in detail. The first section provides...

Table of Contents:

• Fetal Heart Disease
• Contraception and Cardiovascular Disease
• Pre-conception Counseling
• Inheritance of Congenital Heart Disease
• Care During Pregnancy
• The Management of Labour and the Postpartum Period in CHD
• Pregnancy in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot
• Transposition of the Great Arteries
• Shunt Lesions
• Aortic Stenosis
• Pregnancy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Aortopathy
• Aortic Coarctation
• Ebstein Anomaly
• Fontan
• Cyanotic lesions
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonic stenosis.