OBJECTIVES: to establish the basis for treatment and care of cardiopath women in fertile age, following the criteria of evidence based Medicine, through the clinical and perinatal assessment of a group of pregnant women admitted in our service. METHODS: the women were classified according to their cardiopathy and degree of functional impairment related to the complications described during pregnancy, delivery and puerperal stage and perinatal results. The variables analysed were : type of cardiopathy and functional classification of the women, obstetrical and/or cardiovascular complications, pregnancy age at delivery, type of delivery, weigth and Apgar ponctuation in the newly born and mother and infant mortality rates. RESULTS>: 129 acquired valvulopathies, 79 congenital valvulopathies, 18 cases of rithm disturbances. The most frequent lesions were mitral valvulopathies (92) and interauricular communications (31). 21 Patients had their condition aggravated during pregnancy. Cardiovascular complications appeared in 19 patients and obstetric ones in 142. Fourteen had to be admitted in Intensive Care Units and three died. CONCLUSIONS: these results provide an idea of development of this line of work and its impact on reproductive health. The association between functional classifications and cardiovascular complications during pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium were confirmed. Obstetrical complications were the same as in healthy patients and more than half of the devlieries were eutoccic.
Maternal mortality; Prenatal care; Infant mortality; Pregnancy complications
