Pregnancy in heart disease

Heart disease is the joint most common cause of maternal death in the UK.1 The most common cardiac causes of death involve cardiomyopathy and pulmonary hypertension (fig 1). Figure 1 null Cardiac causes of maternal deaths in the UK: confidential enquiry into maternal deaths 1997–99 (total maternal deaths  =  409, cardiac deaths  =  41).1 Congenital heart disease (CHD) is infrequently associated with maternal death, but forms the greatest...