title: Management of Pregnancy in Patients With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association.
abstract: Today, most female children born with congenital heart disease will reach childbearing age. For many women with complex congenital heart disease, carrying a pregnancy carries a moderate to high risk for both the mother and her fetus. Many such women, however, do not have access to adult congenital heart disease tertiary centers with experienced reproductive programs. Therefore, it is important that all practitioners who will be managing these women have current information not only on preconception counseling and diagnostic evaluation to determine maternal and fetal risk but also on how to manage them once they are pregnant and when to refer them to a regional center with expertise in pregnancy management.
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Canobbio
authors.forename: Carole A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Warnes
authors.forename: Jamil
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aboulhosn
authors.forename: Heidi M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Connolly
authors.forename: Amber
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khanna
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Koos
authors.forename: Seema
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mital
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: Candice
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silversides
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stout
mesh_terms: D000572:American Heart Association; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D020097:Natriuretic Peptide, Brain / Q000032:analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D020097:Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
keywords: AHA Scientific Statements; heart defects, congenital; heart diseases; pregnancy