title: [Pregnancy and the heart].
abstract: Pregnancy causes important alterations in the cardiovascular haemodynamics which have important bearing in the case of pre-existing cardiac disease. In addition, cardiovascular medications may be contraindicated in pregnant women. With a better recognition of the specific interactions between pregnancy and cardiac conditions, it is now possible to allow pregnancies in numerous women with recognised cardiac diseases.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, hôpital Cochin, 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75679, Paris, France. laure.cabanes@cch.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cabanes
mesh_terms: D002317:Cardiovascular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D002317:Cardiovascular Agents