Cardio-Obstetrics Care: Challenging Scenarios in Heart Failure and Future Directions.
Specialized heart failure teams for pregnant women with genetic and acquired cardiomyopathies can better manage previously underserved populations at high reproductive risk.
This Eur J Heart Fail review from international cardio-obstetrics experts outlines the increasing complexity of managing heart failure in pregnancy, emphasizing the need for multidisciplinary cardio-obstetric services, genetic counselling, and formal subspecialty recognition. It addresses underserved populations (women with inherited cardiomyopathies, peripartum cardiomyopathy, hypertensive disorders) facing high risk during reproductive years.
What the study was
- Study design
- Narrative review
- Population
- Pregnant/postpartum women with or at risk of cardiovascular disease and heart failure
- Category
- Public Health
- Maturity
- Validated
- Journal
- European Journal of Heart Failure
Why it surfaced
High-quality Eur J Heart Fail review on cardio-obstetrics — an underserved domain where maternal HF mortality is rising; from a highly experienced international team including experts from Africa and Middle East (geographic diversity).
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