Pregnancy in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Mid-term outcomes of mothers and offspring

Current guidelines recommend that patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) avoid pregnancy because of a high mortality risk for the patients and their offspring. Still, some PAH patients become pregnant. We herein report the mid-term maternal and offspring outcomes of 25 consecutive pregnancies in 16 patients with PAH. Five patients had a total of 8 abortions (5 spontaneous, 3 induced; one of these patients developed right ventricular failure and underwent urgent lung transplantation).

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - December 11, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Jan C. Kamp, Constantin von Kaisenberg, Susanne Greve, Lotta Winter, Da-Hee Park, Jan Fuge, Christian K ühn, Marius M. Hoeper, Karen M. Olsson Source Type: research