Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. General Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fetal Heart Disease

      • Julene S. Carvalho, Olus Api

      Pages 3-21

   3. Contraception and Cardiovascular Disease

      • Jan S. Erkamp, Jérôme Cornette

      Pages 23-33

   4. Preconception Counseling

      • M. A. M. Kampman, P. G. Pieper

      Pages 35-49

   5. Inheritance of Congenital Heart Disease

      • Ingrid van de Laar, Marja Wessels

      Pages 51-65

   6. Care During Pregnancy

      • Iris M. van Hagen, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink

      Pages 67-81

   7. The Management of Labour and the Post-partum Period in CHD

      • Matt Cauldwell, Mark Cox, Roisin Monteiro, Mark R. Johnson

      Pages 83-95

3. Specific Lesions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Pregnancy in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

      • Sonya V. Babu-Narayan, Wei Li, Anselm Uebing

      Pages 99-112

   3. Transposition of the Great Arteries

      • Daniel Tobler, Matthias Greutmann

      Pages 113-127

   4. Shunt Lesions

      • Antonia Pijuan-Domenech, Maria Goya

      Pages 129-140

   5. Aortic Stenosis

      • Stefan Orwat, Helmut Baumgartner

      Pages 141-154

   6. Pregnancy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

      • Michelle Michels

      Pages 155-164

   7. Aortopathy

      • Julie De Backer, Laura Muiño-Mosquera, Laurent Demulier

      Pages 165-194

   8. Aortic Coarctation

      • Margarita Brida, Gerhard-Paul Diller

      Pages 195-205

   9. Ebstein Anomaly

      • Andrea Girnius, Gruschen Veldtman, Carri R. Warshak, Markus Schwerzmann

      Pages 207-224

   10. Fontan

       • Margherita Ministeri, Michael A. Gatzoulis

       Pages 225-241

   11. Cyanotic Lesions

       • Matthias Greutmann, Daniel Tobler

       Pages 243-256

   12. Pulmonary Hypertension

       • Werner Budts

       Pages 257-270

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 clear advice on pre-pregnancy risk estimation, counseling of patients, medication use, and inheritance. The specific risks associated with congenital heart defects of differing severity are then explained, with guidance on monitoring and management. The coverage includes simple lesions such as atrial and ventricular septal defects, conditions associated with moderate risk, including tetralogy of Fallot and coarctation, and complex disease such as a Fontan or Mustard repair. The final section is devoted to delivery and considers the mode of delivery, anesthetic use, and postpartum care. Readers will find much information that is underreported in the literature, and the book goes well beyond the European Society of Cardiology guidelines, for example, by considering medical conditions not defined as high risk and addressing the organization of care thoroughly.

• aortic pathology
• cardiomyopathy
• congenital heart disease
• Contraception
• inheritance
• organization of care
• pulmonary hypertension
• valvular heart disease

• Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink

• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

  Mark R. Johnson

Prof. Jolien Roos-Hesselink has worked as a cardiologist since 1992 at the Erasmus MC, Department Congenital Cardiology. In 1987 she obtained her medical degree at the University of Utrecht. In 2004 she defended at the Erasmus University her thesis “Congenital Heart Disease at Adult Age”. Her clinical work and research interests lie in the area of adults with congenital heart defects, with special attention to the aortic valve defects and aortic pathology and pregnancy in people with heart disease. She was appointed in 2009 as Professor and Head of the Department of Congenital Cardiology at Erasmus MC. She is a board member of the European Working Group for congenital heart defects of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and founder and chairman of a major global registry on pregnancy in people with heart disease (ROPAC).

Prof. Mark Johnson is Professor in Clinical Obstetrics at Imperial College, based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical School in 1982 after accrediting in General Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetes, he retrained in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. His early research work focused on the neuroendocrinology of the oxytocin and vasopressin release, but later moved into the endocrinology of obstetrics focusing on the role of the hormone relax in reproduction. Since then the most important topics in his research activity have become preterm labour and the impact of heart disease on pregnancy outcome. He works in the combined Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Clinic of the Chelsea and Westminster and Royal Brompton Hospitals.

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