Description
Two under-served subjects in one volume
Cardiac disease in pregnancy is now a leading cause of maternal mortality in many countries, and it is managed jointly by two specialties each of which assumes the other understands it better. Meanwhile the broader question — how cardiac disease presents and behaves differently in women — remains poorly taught despite decades of evidence.
These 222 pages address both.
The pre-pregnancy conversation
Given proper weight, because it is the intervention with the largest effect and the one most often skipped. Which lesions make pregnancy high risk, which make it inadvisable, what modified WHO classification actually implies for counselling, and how to have that conversation before conception rather than at twenty weeks.
Through pregnancy and delivery
Physiological change and when it unmasks disease. Anticoagulation in pregnancy, including the mechanical valve problem where every option is unattractive. Peripartum cardiomyopathy. Hypertensive disorders and their long-term cardiovascular meaning, which is routinely under-communicated to the patient. Delivery planning, mode and analgesia. The postpartum period, where much of the risk actually concentrates.
Cardiology in women beyond pregnancy
Presentation differences in acute coronary syndromes, INOCA and MINOCA, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, and the reasons women remain under-investigated and under-treated.
Academy placement
Cross-specialty reading, and the volume most often taken by obstetric, anaesthetic and general physician members.
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