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Alatawi FO. Heart disease during pregnancy in the KSA: A suggested plan. J Taibah Univ Med Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtumed.2016.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a potentially life-threatening pregnancy-associated disease that typically arises in the peripartum period and is marked by left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure. The disease is relatively uncommon, but its incidence is rising. Women often recover cardiac function, but long-lasting morbidity and mortality are not infrequent. Management of peripartum cardiomyopathy is largely limited to the same neurohormonal antagonists used in other forms of cardiomyopathy, and no proven disease-specific therapies exist yet. Research in the past decade has suggested that peripartum cardiomyopathy is caused by vascular dysfunction, triggered by late-gestational maternal hormones. Most recently, information has also indicated that many cases of peripartum cardiomyopathy have genetic underpinnings. We review here the known epidemiology, clinical presentation, and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy, as well as the current knowledge of the pathophysiology of the disease.
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- Zolt Arany
- From Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Z.A.); and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (U.E.).
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- From Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Z.A.); and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (U.E.)
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Bauersachs J, Arrigo M, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Veltmann C, Coats AJ, Crespo-Leiro MG, De Boer RA, van der Meer P, Maack C, Mouquet F, Petrie MC, Piepoli MF, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Schaufelberger M, Seferovic P, Tavazzi L, Ruschitzka F, Mebazaa A, Sliwa K. Current management of patients with severe acute peripartum cardiomyopathy: practical guidance from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail 2016; 18:1096-105. [DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2016] [Revised: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 05/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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- Johann Bauersachs
- Department of Cardiology and Angiology; Medical School Hannover; Hannover Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, AP-HP; Lariboisière University Hospital; Paris France
- Department of Cardiology; University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology; Medical School Hannover; Hannover Germany
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- Monash-Warwick Alliance; Monash University, Australia, and University of Warwick; UK
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- Department of Cardiology; University Medical Center Groningen; Groningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology; University Medical Center Groningen; Groningen The Netherlands
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- Klinik für Innere Medizin III; Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes; Homburg Germany
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- Department of Cardiology; Golden Jubilee National Hospital and Glasgow University; Glasgow UK
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- Department of Cardiology; Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital; Piacenza Italy
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- Institute of Gender in Medicine; Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, and German Center for Cardiovascular Research; Berlin Germany
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- Section of Acute and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy; University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra; Gothenburg Sweden
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- Maria Cecilia Hospital, Gruppo Villa Maria Care and Research; Ettore Sansavini Health Science Foundation Cotignola Italy
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- Department of Cardiology; University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP; Saint Louis Lariboisière University Hospitals; Paris France
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- Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa & IDM, Inter-Cape Heart Group, Medical Research Council South Africa, Department of Medicine; University of Cape Town; Cape Town South Africa
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- Karen Sliwa
- Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, SA MRC Cape Heart Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa.
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Mocumbi AO, Sliwa K, Soma-Pillay P. Medical disease as a cause of maternal mortality: the pre-imminence of cardiovascular pathology. Cardiovasc J Afr 2016; 27:84-8. [PMID: 27213855 PMCID: PMC4928173 DOI: 10.5830/cvja-2016-018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Maternal mortality ratio in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC) is 14 times higher than in high-income countries. This is partially due to lack of antenatal care, unmet needs for family planning and education, as well as low rates of birth managed by skilled attendants. While direct causes of maternal death such as complications of hypertension, obstetric haemorrhage and sepsis remain the largest cause of maternal death in LMICs, cardiovascular disease emerges as an important contributor to maternal mortality in both developing countries and the developed world, hampering the achievement of the millennium development goal 5, which aimed at reducing by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio until the end of 2015. Systematic search for cardiac disease is usually not performed during pregnancy in LMICs despite hypertensive disease, rheumatic heart disease and cardiomyopathies being recognised as major health problems in these settings. New concern has been rising due to both the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Undetected or untreated congenital heart defects, undiagnosed pulmonary hypertension, uncontrolled heart failure and complications of sickle cell disease may also be important challenges. This article discusses issues related to the role of cardiovascular disease in determining a substantial portion of maternal morbidity and mortality. It also presents an algorhitm to be used for suspected and previously known cardiac disease in pregnancy in the context of LIMCs.
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- AO Mocumbi
- Instituto Nacional de Saúde and Department of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Moçambique
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- Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, and IDM, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Inter-Cape Heart Group, Medical Research Council South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Inter-Cape Heart Group, Medical Research Council South Africa; University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa
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Soma-Pillay P, Seabe J, Sliwa K. The importance of cardiovascular pathology contributing to maternal death: Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in South Africa, 2011-2013. Cardiovasc J Afr 2016; 27:60-5. [PMID: 26895406 PMCID: PMC4928161 DOI: 10.5830/cvja-2016-008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Aims Cardiac disease is emerging as an important contributor to maternal deaths in both lower-to-middle and higher-income countries. There has been a steady increase in the overall institutional maternal mortality rate in South Africa over the last decade. The objectives of this study were to determine the cardiovascular causes and contributing factors of maternal death in South Africa, and identify avoidable factors, and thus improve the quality of care provided. Methods Data collected via the South African National Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (NCCEMD) for the period 2011–2013 for cardiovascular disease (CVD) reported as the primary pathology was analysed. Only data for maternal deaths within 42 days post-delivery were recorded, as per statutory requirement. One hundred and sixty-nine cases were reported for this period, with 118 complete hospital case files available for assessment and data analysis. Results Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) (34%) and complications of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) (25.3%) were the most important causes of maternal death. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, HIV disease infection and anaemia were important contributing factors identified in women who died of peripartum cardiomyopathy. Mitral stenosis was the most important contributor to death in RHD cases. Of children born alive, 71.8% were born preterm and 64.5% had low birth weight. Seventy-eight per cent of patients received antenatal care, however only 33.7% had a specialist as an antenatal care provider. Avoidable factors contributing to death included delay in patients seeking help (41.5%), lack of expertise of medical staff managing the case (29.7%), delay in referral to the appropriate level of care (26.3%), and delay in appropriate action (36.4%). Conclusion The pattern of CVD contributing to maternal death in South Africa was dominated by PPCM and complications of RHD, which could, to a large extent, have been avoided. It is likely that there were many CVD deaths that were not reported, such as late maternal mortality (up to one year postpartum). Infrastructural changes, use of appropriate referral algorithm and training of primary, secondary and tertiary staff in CVD complicating pregnancy is likely to improve the outcome. The use of simple screening equipment and point-of-care testing for early-onset heart failure should be explored via research projects.
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- Priya Soma-Pillay
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maternal and Foetal Medicine, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, South Africa; National Committee for the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths, South Africa
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tembisa Hospital, Tembisa, South Africa; National Committee for the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths, South Africa
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- Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, and IDM, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Inter-Cape Heart Group, Medical Research Council South Africa.
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Khan SG, Melikian N, Mushemi-Blake S, Dennes W, Jouhra F, Monaghan M, Shah AM. Physiological Reduction in Left Ventricular Contractile Function in Healthy Postpartum Women: Potential Overlap with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0147074. [PMID: 26859567 PMCID: PMC4747599 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2015] [Accepted: 12/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Aims Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a potentially life-threatening cause of heart failure, commoner in Afro-Caribbean than Caucasian women. Its diagnosis can be challenging due to physiological changes in cardiac function that also occur in healthy women during the early postpartum period. This study aimed to (i) establish the overlap between normal cardiac physiology in the immediate postpartum period and pathological changes in peripartum cardiomyopathy ii) identify any ethnicity-specific changes in cardiac function and cardiac biomarkers in healthy postpartum women. Methods and Results We conducted a cross-sectional study of 58 healthy postpartum women within 48 hours of delivery and 18 matched non-pregnant controls. Participants underwent cardiac assessment by echocardiography and strain analysis, including 3D echocardiography in 40 postpartum women. Results were compared with 12 retrospectively studied peripartum cardiomyopathy patients. Healthy postpartum women had significantly higher left ventricular volumes and mass, and lower ejection fraction and global longitudinal strain than non-pregnant controls. These parameters were significantly more impaired in peripartum cardiomyopathy patients but with overlapping ranges of values. Healthy postpartum women had higher levels of adrenomedullin, placental growth factor (PlGF) and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt1) compared to controls. The postpartum state, adrenomedullin, sFlt1 and the sFlt1:PlGF ratio were independent predictors of LV remodelling and function in healthy postpartum women. Conclusion Healthy postpartum women demonstrate several echocardiographic indicators of left ventricular remodelling and reduced function, which are associated with altered levels of angiogenic and cardiac biomarkers.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Biomarkers/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/diagnostic imaging
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/pathology
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/physiopathology
- Female
- Humans
- Myocardial Contraction
- Peripartum Period/metabolism
- Peripartum Period/physiology
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/diagnostic imaging
- Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/metabolism
- Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/pathology
- Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/physiopathology
- Retrospective Studies
- Stroke Volume
- Ultrasonography
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
- Ventricular Function, Left
- Ventricular Remodeling
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- Sitara G. Khan
- Department of Cardiology, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiology, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Dinic V, Markovic D, Savic N, Kutlesic M, Jankovic RJ. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in Intensive Care Unit: An Update. Front Med (Lausanne) 2015; 2:82. [PMID: 26636086 PMCID: PMC4655438 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2015.00082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a systolic heart failure that occurs during the last month of pregnancy or within 5 months after delivery. It is an uncommon disease of unknown etiopathogenesis and has a very high rate of maternal mortality. Because of similarity between symptoms of PPCM and physiological discomforts during pregnancy, the early diagnosis of PPCM presents a major challenge. Since hemodynamic changes during PPCM can vitally jeopardize the mother and the fetus, patients with severe forms of PPCM require a multidisciplinary approach in intensive care units. This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about the diagnosis, monitoring, and the treatment of PPCM. Having reviewed the recent researches, it gives insight into the new treatment strategies of this rare disease.
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- Vesna Dinic
- Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Clinical Center of Nis , Nis , Serbia
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- Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Clinical Center of Nis , Nis , Serbia
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- Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Clinical Center of Nis , Nis , Serbia
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- Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Clinical Center of Nis , Nis , Serbia
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- Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Clinical Center of Nis , Nis , Serbia ; Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, University of Nis , Nis , Serbia
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Bouabdallaoui N, Mouquet F, Lebreton G, Demondion P, Le Jemtel TH, Ennezat PV. Current knowledge and recent development on management of peripartum cardiomyopathy. EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL-ACUTE CARDIOVASCULAR CARE 2015; 6:359-366. [PMID: 26474841 DOI: 10.1177/2048872615612465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Heart failure with left ventricular dysfunction occurring during pregnancy or during the post-partum period in patients without history of cardiovascular disease defines peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). PPCM carries a high morbidity and mortality rate as well as the possibility of recovery ad integrum. Its incidence shows ethnic variations, with a greater prevalence of the disease among women with African descent. Pathogenesis of PPCM remains poorly understood. Both "oxidative stress-prolactin axis" and "anti-angiogenic-signaling excess" hypotheses are currently being investigated. Novel diagnostic strategies and biomarkers are currently being evaluated. Besides conventional treatment of heart failure, targeted therapies such as pharmacological prolactin blockade are under evaluation. The aim of this short review is to highlight current management as targeted therapy has far been disappointing.
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- 1 Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, France
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- 1 Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, France
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- 4 Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, France
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Davis MB. Pregnancy and Heart Disease Updates: Current Knowledge and Future Directions. CURRENT CARDIOVASCULAR RISK REPORTS 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s12170-015-0478-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Haghikia A, Röntgen P, Vogel-Claussen J, Schwab J, Westenfeld R, Ehlermann P, Berliner D, Podewski E, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Bauersachs J. Prognostic implication of right ventricular involvement in peripartum cardiomyopathy: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study. ESC Heart Fail 2015; 2:139-149. [PMID: 27774259 PMCID: PMC5054874 DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.12059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2015] [Revised: 07/18/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Aims Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a major cause of acute heart failure in the peripartum period and considered potentially life threatening. While many aspects of its clinical profiles have been frequently reported, functional analysis, in particular of the right ventricle, and tissue characterization by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging have been only sporadically described. The aim of the present study was to analyse pathological alterations and their prognostic relevance found in CMR imaging of patients newly diagnosed with PPCM. Methods and results In this multicenter study 34 patients with confirmed PPCM underwent CMR imaging at the time of diagnosis and at 5 ± 1 months follow‐up. Cine imaging of PPCM patients showed moderate to severe reduction of systolic left ventricular (LV) function (mean LVEF: 29.7 ± 12.8%). In 35% of the patients right ventricular (RV) systolic function was also reduced with a mean RVEF of 42.9 ± 13.9%. Dilatation of the LV was observed in 91% (mean LV‐EDV/BSA 128.5 ± 32.1 mL/m2), and dilatation of the RV was present in 24% (mean RV‐EDV/BSA 87.4 ± 18.5 mL/m2) of the patients. Focal non‐ischemic late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) was visible in 71%, and regional wall motion abnormalities were evident in 88% of the patients. LGE and wall motion abnormalities were predominantly located in the anteroseptal and basal to midventricular segments. RV dysfunction at baseline was associated with reduced probability of full cardiac recovery at 5 ± 1 months follow‐up. Conclusions Besides LV systolic dysfunction, RV dysfunction and dilatation are observed in about one third of PPCM patients at the time of diagnosis. RV dysfunction is associated with unfavourable outcome. A distinct pattern of LV wall motion abnormalities and myocardial scar is evident in most PPCM patients. The present study may help to establish a set of CMR criteria suitable for diagnosis in patients with suspected PPCM and may add further knowledge to the pathology of the disease.
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- Arash Haghikia
- Department of Cardiology and Angiology Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
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- Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
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- Department of Cardiology Paracelsus Medical University, General Hospital Nuernberg Nuernberg Germany
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- Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty University Duesseldorf Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine University of Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
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Priori SG, Blomström-Lundqvist C, Mazzanti A, Blom N, Borggrefe M, Camm J, Elliott PM, Fitzsimons D, Hatala R, Hindricks G, Kirchhof P, Kjeldsen K, Kuck KH, Hernandez-Madrid A, Nikolaou N, Norekvål TM, Spaulding C, Van Veldhuisen DJ. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: The Task Force for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Endorsed by: Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC). Europace 2015; 17:1601-87. [PMID: 26318695 DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Priori SG, Blomström-Lundqvist C, Mazzanti A, Blom N, Borggrefe M, Camm J, Elliott PM, Fitzsimons D, Hatala R, Hindricks G, Kirchhof P, Kjeldsen K, Kuck KH, Hernandez-Madrid A, Nikolaou N, Norekvål TM, Spaulding C, Van Veldhuisen DJ. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: The Task Force for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by: Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC). Eur Heart J 2015; 36:2793-2867. [PMID: 26320108 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2530] [Impact Index Per Article: 281.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Aged
- Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/therapeutic use
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/genetics
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac/therapy
- Autopsy/methods
- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy/methods
- Cardiomyopathies/complications
- Cardiomyopathies/therapy
- Cardiotonic Agents/therapeutic use
- Catheter Ablation/methods
- Child
- Coronary Artery Disease/complications
- Coronary Artery Disease/therapy
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac/prevention & control
- Defibrillators
- Drug Therapy, Combination
- Early Diagnosis
- Emergency Treatment/methods
- Female
- Heart Defects, Congenital/complications
- Heart Defects, Congenital/therapy
- Heart Transplantation/methods
- Heart Valve Diseases/complications
- Heart Valve Diseases/therapy
- Humans
- Mental Disorders/complications
- Myocardial Infarction/complications
- Myocardial Infarction/therapy
- Myocarditis/complications
- Myocarditis/therapy
- Nervous System Diseases/complications
- Nervous System Diseases/therapy
- Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest/therapy
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/therapy
- Primary Prevention/methods
- Quality of Life
- Risk Assessment
- Sleep Apnea, Obstructive/complications
- Sleep Apnea, Obstructive/therapy
- Sports/physiology
- Stroke Volume/physiology
- Terminal Care/methods
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/complications
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/therapy
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Davis M, Duvernoy C. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Current Knowledge and Future Directions. WOMENS HEALTH 2015; 11:565-73. [DOI: 10.2217/whe.15.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of heart failure occurring at the end of pregnancy or early in the postpartum period. Women may recover, have persistent cardiac dysfunction or suffer complications and death. Women who are African-American, older, hypertensive or have multiple gestation pregnancies have increased risk. Diagnosis and treatment may be delayed due to similarities between symptoms of normal pregnancy and heart failure. Echocardiography is essential for the diagnosis, and B-type natriuretic peptide can be helpful. Treatment for systolic heart failure must be adjusted during pregnancy, and anticoagulation may be indicated. Even after recovery, subsequent pregnancy confers substantial risk of worsening heart failure. Further investigations into the etiology, duration of treatment and risks for relapse are needed.
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- Melinda Davis
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, SPC 5853, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5853, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, SPC 5853, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5853, USA
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Haghikia A, Podewski E, Berliner D, Sonnenschein K, Fischer D, Angermann CE, Böhm M, Röntgen P, Bauersachs J, Hilfiker-Kleiner D. Rationale and design of a randomized, controlled multicentre clinical trial to evaluate the effect of bromocriptine on left ventricular function in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy. Clin Res Cardiol 2015; 104:911-7. [PMID: 26026286 PMCID: PMC4623094 DOI: 10.1007/s00392-015-0869-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Background Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an idiopathic heart disease that develops in the last month of pregnancy and/or the first months following delivery in previously healthy women and may lead to acute heart failure. A cleaved fragment of the nursing hormone prolactin is considered essential in the pathophysiology of PPCM. To date, no specific therapy has been tested for PPCM in a randomized controlled trial of adequate size. Aims The purpose of this trial is to investigate the safety of the dopamin-D2-receptor agonist bromocriptine and its effects on left ventricular (LV) function in women with PPCM. Methods This is an 11 center German trial with a prospective randomized controlled open-label design. The trial enrolls females with newly diagnosed PPCM according to European Society of Cardiology criteria with a LV ejection fraction (LVEF) <35 %. Patients are randomized 1:1 to either best supportive care (BSC) including standard heart failure therapy plus 8 weeks of bromocriptine therapy (2.5 mg b.i.d. for 14 days and 2.5 mg q.d. from day 15 to 56) or to BSC plus 1 week of low-dose bromocriptine (2.5 mg q.d.) with anticoagulant therapy at a prophylactic dose administered during the period of bromocriptine treatment in both groups. The primary endpoint is change in LVEF from baseline to 6 months follow-up as assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (or echocardiography if CMR is not tolerated). The secondary endpoints are hospitalization for worsening heart failure, heart transplantation, and all-cause mortality during follow-up or a combination of these endpoints. A total of 60 patients will be recruited (including 6 potential dropouts) giving a power of 0.9 for an expected LVEF change of 10.8 % between treatment groups at 6 months. Perspective This trial will provide important knowledge on potential benefits and safety of prolonged inhibition of prolactin release with bromocriptine in addition to standard heart failure therapy in newly diagnosed PPCM. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00998556.
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- Arash Haghikia
- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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Dalzell JR, Cannon JA, Simpson J, Gardner RS, Petrie MC. Improving outcomes in peripartum cardiomyopathy. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 2015; 13:665-71. [DOI: 10.1586/14779072.2015.1040767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Libhaber E, Sliwa K, Bachelier K, Lamont K, Böhm M. Low systolic blood pressure and high resting heart rate as predictors of outcome in patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy. Int J Cardiol 2015; 190:376-82. [PMID: 25966297 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.04.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) present with low blood pressure (SBP) often preventing uptitration of heart failure medication. We aimed to study prediction of risk and the contribution of high resting heart rate (HR) and low SBP to risk in recent onset of PPCM. METHODS Clinical assessment with HR and SBP, echocardiography and laboratory results were obtained at baseline and at six months on 206 patients with recent onset PPCM enrolled at two tertiary care centers in South Africa. Poor outcome was defined as the combined endpoint of death, LVEF<35% or remaining in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class III/IV at six months. Complete LV recovery was defined as LVEF ≥ 55% at six months. RESULTS Poor outcome was observed in 110 of 220 patients (53%), with 26 patients dying at six months (12.6%). There were 98 (47.5%) patients with SBP ≤ 110 mmHg. Patients with high HR (HR ≥ 100) and low SBP (< 110 mmHg) tended to have worse outcomes than patients below the HR median and high SBP. PPCM patients with low SBP and high HR were less likely to be on ACE-inhibitors (n = 35, 69% versus n = 129, 84%, p = 0.024) and on the beta blocker carvedilol (n = 24, 47% versus n = 98, 64%, p = 0.047). Low SBP, high HR and left ventricular end diastolic diameter at baseline were predictors of poor outcome. Patients with low SBP and high HR had the highest mortality (p = 0.0023). CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest increased risk in patients with PPCM presenting with low SBP and high HR on standard heart failure medication possibly having implications on HF management.
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- Elena Libhaber
- Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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- Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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- Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Kardiologie, Angiologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Kirrberger Str. 1, D 66424 Homburg, Saar, Germany
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- Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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- Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Kardiologie, Angiologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Kirrberger Str. 1, D 66424 Homburg, Saar, Germany.
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The pregnant heart: cardiac emergencies during pregnancy. Am J Emerg Med 2015; 33:573-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2015.02.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Revised: 02/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Haghikia A, Nonhoff J, Bauersachs J. Peripartum cardiomyopathy: current management and future perspectives. Eur Heart J 2015; 36:1090-7. [PMID: 25636745 PMCID: PMC4422973 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Pregnancy is associated with marked physiological changes challenging the cardiovascular system. Among the more severe pregnancy associated cardiovascular complications, peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a potentially life-threatening heart disease emerging towards the end of pregnancy or in the first postpartal months in previously healthy women. A major challenge is to distinguish the peripartum discomforts in healthy women (fatigue, shortness of breath, and oedema) from the pathological symptoms of PPCM. Moreover, pregnancy-related pathologies such as preeclampsia, myocarditis, or underlying genetic disease show overlapping symptoms with PPCM. Difficulties in diagnosis and the discrimination from other pathological conditions in pregnancy may explain why PPCM is still underestimated. Additionally, underlying pathophysiologies are poorly understood, biomarkers are scarce and treatment options in general limited. Experience in long-term prognosis and management including subsequent pregnancies is just beginning to emerge. This review focuses on novel aspects of physiological and pathophysiological changes of the maternal cardiovascular system by comparing normal conditions, hypertensive complications, genetic aspects, and infectious disease in PPCM-pregnancies. It also presents clinical and basic science data on the current state of knowledge on PPCM and brings them in context thereby highlighting promising new insights in diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches and management.
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- Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner
- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical School Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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Barouch LA. Progress for peripartum cardiomyopathy. Trends Cardiovasc Med 2015; 25:407-8. [PMID: 25620653 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcm.2014.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Lili A Barouch
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
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Bollen IAE, Van Deel ED, Kuster DWD, Van Der Velden J. Peripartum cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy: different at heart. Front Physiol 2015; 5:531. [PMID: 25642195 PMCID: PMC4295435 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Accepted: 12/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a severe cardiac disease occurring in the last month of pregnancy or in the first 5 months after delivery and shows many similar clinical characteristics as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) such as ventricle dilation and systolic dysfunction. While PPCM was believed to be DCM triggered by pregnancy, more and more studies show important differences between these diseases. While it is likely they share part of their pathogenesis such as increased oxidative stress and an impaired microvasculature, discrepancies seen in disease progression and outcome indicate there must be differences in pathogenesis as well. In this review, we compared studies in DCM and PPCM to search for overlapping and deviating disease etiology, pathogenesis and outcome in order to understand why these cardiomyopathies share similar clinical features but have different underlying pathologies.
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- Ilse A E Bollen
- Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
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ABSTRACT Research in pregnancy is challenging as it involves a special ‘vulnerable’ group due to the involvement of the mother and the fetus. These challenges, which are inherent in studying pregnancy in physiologic and pathologic states, have contributed to the scant research in pregnancy. Until recently, most studies in pregnancy were nonrandomized and retrospective in nature, representing prevailing clinical standards of practice and clinicians’ biases. Prospective studies were generally limited to single centers, comprising of small sample sizes and were observational in nature, rather than randomized studies involving therapy. Ethical and legal factors, research mandates, patient factors, the protracted nature of pregnancy, institutional commitment to research, interdisciplinary clinical and research collaboration, funding support, administrative issues and the level of involvement of national cardiac and obstetric and gynecological societies have been barriers to research in pregnancy in developed countries. Even prospective observational studies are difficult to perform due the difficulties involved with obtaining consent, study recruitment and follow-up. Misconceptions regarding research have led to a lack of participation by women. The longitudinal nature of prospective studies in pregnancy, the problems associated with enrolling women before pregnancy and in the first trimester and the failure to understand the commitment required by the patient, as well as many social factors, have led to increased drop-out rates during pregnancy, as well as difficulty with follow-up in the post-partum state. These factors, along with the failure to supplement funding support due to longer study periods than anticipated, have led to studies of small sample sizes. Understanding patient factors that lead to a lack of participation in research or dropping out following initial consent could help make research participation more conducive for pregnant women. The involvement of national societies in the planning and funding of multicenter studies, interdepartmental and interinstitutional collaboration, institutional and extramural funding support and patient incentives are crucial for shortening study duration and ensuring adequacy of sample sizes for successful research in pregnancy. National health service structures, such as those found in Europe and Canada, makes multicenter collaboration for prospective studies more feasible than for countries such as the USA, in which the fees-for-service system is used. Utilization of telemedicine and handheld ultrasound systems and participation in prospective multicenter registries could not only improve the clinical care of pregnant women in underdeveloped countries, but also provide a platform for research during pregnancy. Multicenter and even global registries supported by European cardiac societies have been formed recently that are beginning to bring forth much-needed data regarding pathological states, such as peripartum cardiomyopathy and pregnancy in congenital heart disease. Such studies are largely confined to non-US countries and have started seeing participation from underdeveloped countries. Studies on pregnancy in connective tissue disorders, older women, post-chemoradiation therapy or organ transplantation and in the HIV state remain limited.
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Sliwa K, Libhaber E, Elliott C, Momberg Z, Osman A, Zühlke L, Lachmann T, Nicholson L, Thienemann F, Roos-Hesselink J, Anthony J. Spectrum of cardiac disease in maternity in a low-resource cohort in South Africa. Heart 2014; 100:1967-74. [PMID: 25227705 PMCID: PMC4251204 DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-306199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Background Lack of evidence-based data on the spectrum of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in pregnancy or in the postpartum period, as well as on maternal and fetal outcome, provides challenges for treating physicians, particularly in areas of low resources. The objectives of this study were to investigate the spectrum of disease, mode of presentation and maternal and fetal outcome of patients referred to a dedicated Cardiac Disease and Maternity Clinic (CDM). Methods The prospective cohort study was conducted at a single tertiary care centre in South Africa. Two hundred and twenty-five women presenting with CVD in pregnancy, or within 6 months postpartum, were studied over a period of 2 years. Clinical assessment, echocardiography and laboratory tests were performed at baseline and follow-up visits. Prepartum, peripartum and postpartum complications were grouped into cardiac, neonatal and obstetric events. Results Ethnicity was black African (45%), mixed ethnicity (32%), white (15%), Indian/others (8%) and 12% were HIV positive. Of the 225 consecutive women (mean age 28.8±6.4), 196 (86.7%) presented prepartum and 73 in modified WHO class I. The 152 women presenting in a higher risk group (modified WHO class II–IV) were offered close follow-up at the CDM clinic and were diagnosed with congenital heart disease (32%, 15 operated previously), valvular heart disease (26%, 15 operated previously), cardiomyopathy (27%) and other (15%). Women presenting with symptoms of CVD or heart failure postpartum (n=30) presented in a higher New York Heart Association, had higher heart rates (p<0.001) and NTproBNP levels (p<0.0005). Of the 152 patients, 9 (6%) died within the 6-month follow-up period. Eight of the nine patients died >42 days postpartum. Perinatal death occurred in 1/152 (0.7%)—translating to a perinatal mortality rate of 7/1000 live births. Conclusions Disease patterns were markedly different to that seen in the developed world. However, joint obstetric–cardiac care in the low-resource cohort was associated with excellent survival outcome rates of pregnant mothers (even with complex diseases) and their offspring and was similar to that seen in the western world. Mortality typically occurred in the postpartum period, beyond the standard date of recording maternal death.
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- Karen Sliwa
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Faculty of Health Sciences, Inter-Cape Heart MRC Unit and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Paediatrics, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Inter-Cape Heart MRC Unit and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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