This comprehensive and authoritative text on heart disease in pregnancy – one of the leading causes of maternal death – will be of value to a wide audience of obstetricians, cardiologists, anaesthetists, midwives, and cardiac nurses. It provides consensus guidelines of great practical value in a compact and convenient format. Written by a multidisciplinary team, it covers both maternity and cardiac care. Contents range from pre-conception counselling and contraception, through practical templates for antenatal and intrapartum care, to long-term outcome for both mother and baby. It covers all causes of heart disease, both congenital and acquired. Thoroughly updated, this new edition has reorganised the consensus statements about priorities in management. In addition, each chapter now starts with a summary of ‘Practical Practice Points’ to aid quick revision when seeing a patient with a specific problem. A new section on heart and lung transplantation has been added since the first edition.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Preconception counseling for women with cardiac disease
Chapter 2 Contraception in women with heart disease
Chapter 3 Cardiovascular changes in normal pregnancy
Chapter 4 Antenatal care of women with cardiac disease: An obstetric perspective
Chapter 5 Antenatal care of women with cardiac disease: A cardiac perspective
Chapter 6 Cardiac monitoring during pregnancy
Chapter 7 Cardiac drugs in pregnancy
Chapter 8 Surgical and catheter intervention during pregnancy in women with heart disease
Chapter 9 Antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease
Chapter 10 Fetal care and surveillance in women with congenital heart disease
Chapter 11 Management of women with prosthetic heart valves during pregnancy
Chapter 12 Management of aortopathies, including Marfan syndrome and coarctation, in pregnancy
Chapter 13 Management of mitral and aortic stenosis in pregnancy
Chapter 14 Management of right heart lesions in pregnancy
Chapter 15 Management of pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy
Chapter 16 Management of cardiomyopathies in pregnancy
Chapter 17 Management of ischemic heart disease in pregnancy
Chapter 18 Management of maternal cardiac arrhythmias in pregnancy
Chapter 19 Management of maternal endocarditis in pregnancy
Chapter 20 Management of women with heart and lung transplantation in pregnancy
Chapter 21 Pregnancy and cardiac disease: Peripartum aspects
Chapter 22 Management of the puerperium in women with heart disease
Chapter 23 Impact of pregnancy on long-term outcomes in women with heart disease
Chapter 24 Long-term outcome of pregnancy with heart disease