title: [Heart disease and pregnancy].
abstract: The normal cardiovascular adjustments to pregnancy and the hemodynamic disorders attendant on various acquired and congenital cardiac defects is pregnancy are reviewed. The incidence of the various cardiovascular complications during pregnancy is discussed in relation to each individual type of heart disease. The modern diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities offered by cardiology mean that an increasing number of patients with cardiac defects can look forward to safe pregnancy and childbirth.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D004554:Electric Countershock; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology; D006331:Heart Diseases; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000628:therapy; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Herzfehler und Schwangerschaft