Pregnancy in Women with Aortic Stenosis

Teodor Garnizov; Vangeliya Atanasova; Mariela Filtcheva

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2014.077

Authors

Teodor Garnizov Specialised Hospital for Active Treatment in Obstetrics and Gynaecology "Maichin Domâ€, Postpartum Department, 2 "Zdrave" Str., Sofia 1431
Vangeliya Atanasova Specialised Hospital for Active Treatment in Obstetrics and Gynaecology "Maichin Domâ€, Postpartum Department, 2 "Zdrave" Str., Sofia 1431
Mariela Filtcheva Specialised Hospital for Active Treatment in Obstetrics and Gynaecology "Maichin Domâ€, Postpartum Department, 2 "Zdrave" Str., Sofia 1431

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2014.077

Keywords:

Pregnancy, aortic stenosis, complications, asymptomatic, severe

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to provide data about the course and outcome of pregnancy in the women with aortic stenosis (AS) with special attention to complications in pregnant with severe AS, which was asymptomatic prior to conception.

METHODS: Eleven pregnant women with different grades of AS were monitored in ambulatory and clinical conditions during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period. The Apgar scores of the neonates born by mothers with AS were compared to those of neonates born by healthy mothers, using the variation statistical analysis.

RESULTS: In the group with severe AS, asymptomatic prior to conception, aggravation of the NYHA functional class (FC) with left ventricular heart failure was observed. Pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum period were normal in the group with moderate aortic stenosis and in those with ventricular defects, corrected prior to conception. The sums of the Apgar scores for the whole group did not differ from those for the neonates, born by healthy mothers.

CONCLUSION: The results suggest that there is a need of consensus for the complex of examinations, enabling diagnostic differentiation of pregnant women with severe AS requiring urgent defect correction and, the prognosis of pregnancy in women with asymptomatic severe AS.

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