ReviewHeart (British Cardiac Society)2019
Cardiomyopathy and pregnancy.
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- Heart disease in pregnancy and adverse outcomes: an umbrella review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes Following New-Onset Arrhythmias During Pregnancy.Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE · 2026Article
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy: Clinical Predictors of favourable maternal-fetal outcomes.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Preferences regarding preconceptional and genetic counselling and pregnancy check-ups among women with the PLN p. (Arg14del) variant.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2026Article
- Triglycerides play a crucial role in the pathway from depression to cardiomyopathy: A mediation Mendelian randomization study.Medicine · 2026Article
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #73: Diagnosis and management of right and left heart failure during pregnancy and postpartum.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Sailing Across Contraception, Pregnancy, and Breastfeeding: The Complex Journey of Women with Cardiomyopathies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Sudden Cardiac Death in Pregnant Women-Literature Review and Autopsy Findings.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Multifaceted roles of neutrophils in cardiac disease.Journal of leukocyte biology · 2025Review
- Maternal heart failure: state-of-the-art review.Heart failure reviews · 2025Review
- Pregnancy-Related Cardiovascular Diseases: A Radiological Overview.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
- Incident stroke in individuals with peripartum cardiomyopathy.American heart journal · 2024Article
- Emerging insights into cuproptosis and copper metabolism: implications for age-related diseases and potential therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- Contraception and Cardiovascular Effects: What Should the Cardiologist Know?Current cardiology reports · 2023Review
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- Cardiac Complications of Pregnancy in Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy.JACC. Case reports · 2023Article
- ACC/AHA/HFSA 2022 and ESC 2021 guidelines on heart failure comparison.ESC heart failure · 2023Review
- Introducing and Implementing Genetic Assessment in Cardio-Obstetrics Clinical Practice: Clinical and Genetic Workup of Patients with Cardiomyopathy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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- 2023 National Heart Center/Saudi Heart Association Focused Update of the 2019 Saudi Heart Association Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure.Journal of the Saudi Heart Association · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cardiomyopathy is a group of disorders in which the heart muscle is structurally and functionally abnormal in the absence of other diseases that could cause observed myocardial abnormality. The most common cardiomyopathies are hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy. Rare types are arrhythmogenic right ventricular, restrictive, Takotsubo and left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathies. This review of cardiomyopathies in pregnancy shows that peripartum cardiomyopathy is the most common cardiomyopathy in pregnancy. Peripartum cardiomyopathy develops most frequently in the month before or after partum, whereas dilated cardiomyopathy often is known already or develops in the second trimester. Mortality in peripartum cardiomyopathy varies from <2% to 50%. Few reports on dilated cardiomyopathy and pregnancy exist, with only a limited number of patients. Ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure, stroke and death are found in 39%-60% of high-risk patients. However, patients with modest left ventricular dysfunction and good functional class tolerated pregnancy well. Previous studies on >700 pregnancies in 500 women with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy showed that prognosis was generally good, even though three deaths were reported in high-risk patients. Complications include different types of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure and ischaemic stroke. Recent studies on 200 pregnancies in 100 women with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy have reported symptoms, including heart failure in 18%-33% of pregnancies. Ventricular tachycardia was found in 0%-33% of patients and syncope in one patient. Information on rare cardiomyopathies is sparse and only presented in case reports. Close monitoring by multidisciplinary teams in referral centres that counsel patients before conception and follow them throughout gestation is recommended.
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