Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy offers clinicians the most detailed and comprehensive guide to diagnosing and managing pregnancy-associated cardiovascular diseases currently available. Covering a wide spectrum of congenital and acquired cardiovascular conditions, its extensive contents examine diseases of the heart with an expert awareness of the implications of pregnancy and the attendant physiological changes it brings. Such guidance is vitally required in an age in which congenital and acquired heart diseases are the leading causes of non-obstetrical maternal morbidity and mortality.
Featuring 36 new or extensively revised chapters, this fourth edition of the book complements coverage of the latest research and clinical advances with a complete and up-to-date bibliography of literature on pregnancy in women with cardiovascular conditions. It also serves as a practical, step-by-step companion for those caring for heart disease patients during pregnancy, labor, and the post-partum period.
Drawing on expertise from across the fields of cardiovascular medicine, obstetrics, anesthesiology, cardiac surgery, pharmacology, and clinical science,
Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy is designed to give invaluable support to all medical professionals involved in maximizing the safety and success of cardiologically complex pregnancies.
Table of ContentsPart I Physiologic changes during normal pregnancy and the puerperium- 1. Hemodynamic and cardiac function
Part II Cardiac evaluation of the pregnant woman- 2. Cardiovascular evaluation during pregnancy
3. Cardiovascular imaging in the pregnant patient
Part III Cardiac disorders and pregnancy- 4. Risk assessment prior and during pregnancy
- 5. Congenital heart disease and pregnancy
- 6. Native valvular heart disease and pregnancy
- 7. Pregnancy in the patient with prosthetic heart valves
- 8. Myocarditis and pregnancy
- 9. Pericardial disorders and pregnancy
- 10. Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- 11. Dilated cardiomyopathy and pregnancy
- 12. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pregnancy
- 13. Left ventricular non-compaction
- 14. Acute myocardial infarction and pregnancy
- 15. Cardiac arrhythmias and pregnancy
- 16. Pulmonary arterial hypertension and pregnancy
- 17. Infective endocarditis
Part IV Vascular disease in pregnancy- 18. Vascular dissections and aneurysms during pregnancy
- 19. Marfan syndrome and pregnancy
- 20. Non Martan aorthopaties and pregnant patient
- 21. Takayasu's arteritis and pregnancy
- 22. Thromboembolic disease in pregnancy
- 23. Amniotic fluid embolism and pregnancy
- 24. Hypertension during pregnancy
- 25. Syncope in pregnancy
Part V Cardiac surgery and catheter based interventions during pregnancy- 26. Cardiac surgery during pregnancy
- 27. Catheter based interventions in women with heart disease during pregnancy
- 28. Analgesia and anesthesia during pregnancy Labor and delivery
- 29. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation of pregnant women
Joan Briller, MD - 30. Pregnancy after cardiac transplantation
Part VI Cardiovascular drug therapy during pregnancy- 31. Pharmacokinetics of drugs in pregnancy and lactation
- 32. Cardiovascular drugs in pregnancy and lactatio
- 33. Tocolytic therapy in the cardiac patient34. Fertility control in the cardiac patient
Part VII Labor and delivery- 35. Management of labor and delivery in the cardiac patient
- 36. Cardiac effects of drugs used for induction of labor and prevention and treatment of post partum haemorrhage
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