title: Pregnancy and delivery following cardiac operations.
abstract: For young female patients with cardiac diseases, to be married, pregnancy and delivery are serious problems. Ninety-two post-operative patients (138 deliveries) and 57 non-surgical patients (86 deliveries) were subjected to analysis of their cardiac and obstetric conditions. A stable course and successful delivery were observed in the patients treated whose cardiac diseases were treated with surgical therapy. Among the non-surgical patients, however, impairment of their clinical condition was experienced including 3 maternal deaths. Incidence of various complications occurring during the course of pregnancy and delivery was 12.3% in the surgical and 18.6% in the non-surgical groups. It was clinically demonstrated that women suffering from cardiac diseases might well tolerate their pregnancy and delivery if accorded proper surgical treatment.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000453:epidemiology; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011247:Pregnancy; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors