The incidence of, and the risk factors for, cardiovascular disease in individuals and patient groups - pregnant patients
Cardiac disease in pregnancy
Cardiac disease in pregnancy.
- The leading cause of indirect maternal death in Australia and the UK
- Two groups, with different problems:
- Pre-existing cardiac disease - congenital (now the majority in high-income settings), rheumatic (over-represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and migrants), cardiomyopathy, aortopathy, ischaemic
- Pregnancy-acquired - peripartum cardiomyopathy, SCAD, pre-eclampsia-associated, gestational hypertension, arrhythmia, PE
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