Maternal mortality and predictors of adverse outcome in patients with heart disease in pregnancy.

Introduction The prevalence of heart disease in pregnancy has shown an increasing trend in recent years and affects around 0.3–3.5% of all pregnancies.[ 1 ] Not only does it have a significant impact on maternal and fetal outcomes, but it is also the leading indirect cause of maternal mortality, accounting for 20.5% of all cases of maternal mortality.[ 2 , 3 ] Although heart disease a

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