Karen Sliwa, Iris M van Hagen, Werner Budts, Lorna Swan, Gianfranco Sinagra, Maryanne Caruana, Manuel Vazquez Blanco, Lodewijk J Wagenaar, Mark R Johnson, Gary Webb, Roger Hall, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink
AIMS: To describe the outcomes of pregnancy in women with pulmonary hypertension. METHODS AND RESULTS: In 2007 the European Registry on Pregnancy and Heart Disease was initiated by the European Society of Cardiology. Consecutive patients with all forms of cardiovascular disease, presenting with pregnancy, were enrolled with the aim of investigating the pregnancy outcomes. This subgroup of the cohort included 151 women with pulmonary hypertension (PH) either diagnosed by right heart catheterization or diagnosed as possible PH by echocardiographic signs, with 26% having pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), in three subgroups: idiopathic (iPAH), associated with congenital heart disease (CHD-PAH), or associated with other disease (oPAH), and 74% having PH caused by left heart disease (LHD-PH, n = 112)...
September 2016: European Journal of Heart Failure