title: [Pregnancy and delivery in women with congenital heart disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Perinatal care of women with congenital heart disease is very important for obstetrician.
  
  
  METHODS
  The purpose of this study was to analyse the course of pregnancy, delivery and after birth period of women with congenital heart disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  A group of 35 pregnancies and deliveries in patients with congenital heart disease cured in 1998-2003 in the Department of Obstetrics and of Medical University in Gdansk were analysed. The control group was a total of 1657 deliveries in the Department of Obstetrics in the 1998. For statistical analysis of the results the T-Student test was used with the significance level p = 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Time of pregnancy, birth weight and length were statistically different to the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We found no cardiological complications during pregnancy in patients with congenital heart disease at I and II stage NYHA. Time of pregnancy, birth weight and length were statistically different to the control group.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Połoznictwa Instytutu Połoznictwa i Chorób Kobiecych AM w Gdańsku.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Preis
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Swiatkowska-Freund
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ciach
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kowalewska-Włas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001034:Apgar Score; D001724:Birth Weight; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002585:Cesarean Section; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D012307:Risk Factors