Right heart failure in pregnant women with cyanotic congenital heart disease--The good, the bad and the ugly

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Jan 1:202:773-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.10.036. Epub 2015 Oct 9.

Authors

E Zengin¹, C Sinning², B Schrage², G C Mueller³, H Klose⁴, J Sachweh⁵, M Goepfert⁶, B Hueneke⁷, S Blankenberg², R Kozlik-Feldmann³

Affiliations

¹ Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Germany.
³ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Germany.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine 2, Section of Pneumology, Germany.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Germany.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Germany.
⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Germany.

PMID: 26474467
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.10.036

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Disease Progression
Echocardiography
Female
Heart Defects, Congenital / complications*
Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnostic imaging
Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging
Heart Failure / etiology*
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular*
Pregnancy Outcome
Ventricular Remodeling / physiology*