Cardiac structural abnormalities: A population norm or a risk group during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and in newborn infants

Smolnova T.Yu., Nechaeva G.I., Martynov A.I., Bockeria E.L.

1 Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow 117997, Ac. Oparina str. 4, Russia; 2 Hospital Therapy Department One, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow 127473, Delegatskaya str. 20/1, Russia; 3 Department of Internal and Family Medicine, Omsk State Medical University, Omsk 644099, Lenina str. 12, Russia
Objective. To summarize and analyze the evidence-based data analyses of cardiac structural abnormalities (CSAs), their distribution in the population, including in women in the perinatal period and in neonates, and the role of CSAs in the risk of complications.
Material and methods. The review included data from foreign and Russian sources over the past 15 years.
Results. CSAs in pregnant women are more common than could be supposed. In healthy pregnant women, hemodynamically insignificant mitral valve prolapse was concurrent with patent foramen ovale in 7.8% of cases, with atrial and ventricular septal aneurysm in 5.9%, with additional chords of the left ventricle in 10.4%; with malformations of the aortic valve leaflets in 7.8%, with calcification of the mitral valve leaflets in 2.6%, and with the dilated aortic root in 1.1%.
Conclusion. The approach to managing patients with CSAs should be extremely careful in view of a high risk of complications. Complications, as well as current approaches to the definition and clinical relevance of these conditions are outlined. A separate role is given to the diagnosis of CSAs and to the role of executing Order No. 572-n in patients with CSAs in obstetrics and gynecology.

Keywords

cardiac malformations
pregnancy
valve prolapse
patent foramen ovale
Eustachian valve
thebesian valve
mitral valve
aortic valve
childbirth
postpartum period
risk
stroke
infarction
aneurysm
additional chords
Chiari network

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Received 16.06.2017

Accepted 23.06.2017

About the Authors

Smolnova Tatyana Yurievna, Doctor of Medicine, senior researcher of surgical department, Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia. 117997, Russia, Moscow, Ac. Oparina str. 4. Tel.: +74954384068. E-mail: smoltat@list.ru. Orcid.org/0000-0003-3543-651X. Scopus Author ID: 6504317244
Nechaeva Galina Ivanovna, MD, professor, head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Family Medicine, Omsk State Medical University.
644099, Russia, Omsk, Lenina str. 12. Tel.: + 73812236700. E-mail: profnechaeva@yandex.ru
Martynov Anatoly Ivanovich, MD, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Department of Hospital Therapy, senior researcher
of the Department of Operative Gynecology, A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Ministry of Health of Russia.
127473, Russia, Moscow, Delegatskaya str. 20/1. Tel.: +74956096700. E-mail: anatmartynov@mail.ru
Bokeria Ekaterina Leonidovna, MD, head of the department of pathology of newborns and prematurity No. 2, Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia. 117997, Russia, Moscow, Ac. Oparina str. 4. Tel.: +74954382620. E-mail: e_bokeriya@oparina4.ru

For citations: Smolnova T.Yu., Nechaeva G.I., Martynov A.I., Bockeria E.L. Cardiac structural abnormalities: A population norm or a risk group during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and in newborn infants. Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya/Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2018; (2): 5-12. (in Russian)
https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/aig.2018.2.5-12

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