title: [If heart failure or cardiac arrest complicate pregnancy and delivery].
abstract: Physiological adaptation to pregnancy exposes mother's cardiovascular system to relevant hemodynamic overload. These changes and other specific conditions of pregnancy, such as amniotic embolism, can point out unrecognized preexisting heart disease or, in the presence of some cofactors, be burdensome even for healthy hearts. Thus, tragic cases of heart failure or cardiac arrest may occur, whose management requires several considerations with respect of trying to save two lives at the same time, the need for drugs potentially harmful to the fetus, and assessment of emergent cesarean section.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Cardiovascolare, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria e Universith degli Studi, Trieste. serenarakar@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rakar
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buiatti
authors.forename: Biancamaria
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: D'Agata
authors.forename: Gastone
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sabbadini
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brun
authors.forename: Laura Vitali
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Serdoz
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Milo
authors.forename: Caterina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Businelli
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alberico
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Massa
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fabris
authors.forename: Aneta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aleksova
authors.forename: Gianfranco
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sinagra
mesh_terms: D002585:Cesarean Section; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index