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Pregnancy in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Karen M. Olsson, Richard Channick
European Respiratory Review 2016 25: 431-437; DOI: 10.1183/16000617.0079-2016
Karen M. Olsson
1Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Richard Channick
2Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Abstract

Despite advanced therapies, maternal mortality in women with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains high in pregnancy and is especially high during the post-partum period. However, recent data indicates that morbidity and mortality during pregnancy and after birth have improved for PAH patients. The current European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society guidelines recommend that women with PAH should not become pregnant. Therefore, the risks associated with pregnancy must be emphasised and counselling offered to women at the time of PAH diagnosis and to women with PAH who become pregnant. Early termination should be discussed. Women who choose to continue with their pregnancy should be treated at specialised pulmonary hypertension centres with experience in managing PAH during and after pregnancy.

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While pregnancy is not recommended in PAH, there is increasing experience in managing PAH in pregnant women http://ow.ly/N6b2305Aur3

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  • Editorial comment in Eur Respir Rev 2016; 25: 361–363.

  • Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside this article at err.ersjournals.com

  • Provenance: The European Respiratory Review received sponsorship from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland, for the publication of these peer-reviewed articles.

  • Received August 16, 2016.
  • Accepted October 19, 2016.
  • Copyright ©ERS 2016.

ERR articles are open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence 4.0.

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Karen M. Olsson, Richard Channick
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