Celia Oakley, MD, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.Carole A. Warnes, MD, Professor of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

• Contributors, viiPreface, xAcknowledgments, xi1 Overview, 1Celia Oakley2 Physiological changes in pregnancy, 6Candice K Silversides, Jack M Colman3 Cardiovascular examination in pregnancy and the approach to diagnosis of cardiac disorder, 18Petros Nihoyannopoulos4 Acyanotic congenital heart disease, 29Heidi M Connolly, Celia Oakley5 Cyanotic congenital heart disease, 43Carole A Warnes6 Pregnancy and pulmonary hypertension, 59Joseph G Parambil, Michael D McGoon7 Rheumatic heart disease, 79Bernard Iung8 Mitral valve prolapse, 96Bernard Iung9 Artificial heart valves, 104James R Trimm, Lynne Hung, Shahbudin H Rahimtoola Copyrighted Material10 Management of pregnancy in Marfan syndrome, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome and other heritable connective tissue disorders, 122Lilian J Meijboom, Barbara JM Mulder11 Heart disease, pregnancy and systemic autoimmune diseases, 136Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Munther A Khamashta, Graham RV Hughes12 Pulmonary disease and cor pulmonale, 151Claire L Shovlin, Anita K Simonds, JMB Hughes13 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pregnancy, 173Jorge R Alegria, Rick A Nishimura14 Peripartum cardiomyopathy, other heart muscle disorders and pericardial diseases, 186Celia Oakley15 Coronary artery disease, 204Celia Oakley16 Heart rhythm disorders, 217David Lefroy, Dawn Adamson17 Pulmonary embolism, 243Celia Oakley18 Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, 264Alexander Heazell, Philip N Baker19 Management of labour and delivery in the high-risk patient, 281Kirk D Ramin20 Anesthesia and the pregnant cardiac patient, 290Gurinder Vasdev21 Cardiac percutaneous intervention and surgery during pregnancy, 304Patrizia Presbitero, Giacomo Boccuzzi, Felice Bruno22 Genetic counseling, 316Michael A Patton23 Contraception for the cardiac patient, 327Philip J SteerIndex, 343

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