How Pregnancy Impacts Adult Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease: A Multicenter Observational Study

Magalie Ladouceur1, Louise Benoit2, Adeline Basquin2

  • 1From Centre de référence des Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes, M3C, Paris, France (M.L., S.H.); Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou and Necker Hospital, APHP, Paris Descartes University, Paris Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire, INSERM U970, France (M.L.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, APHP, Paris, France (L.B., J.N.); Centre de Compétence des Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes, M3C, Service de Cardiologie, CHU de Rennes, France (A.B.); Cardiologie Congénitale, Strasbourg, France (J.R.); Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology Department, University Hospital, CHU d'Angers, France (Q.H.); Department of Congenital Heart Diseases, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Plessis-Robinson, France (S.H.); Cardiology Department, Hôpital Pasteur, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France (P.M.); Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Institut du thorax, CHU de Nantes, France (L.L.); Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology Department, M3C Regional Reference Center, University Hospital, Physiology and Experimental Biology of Heart and Muscles Laboratory, PHYMEDEXP, UMR CNRS 9214, INSERM U1046, University of Montpellier, France (P.A.); Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology Department, M3C Regional Antilles-Guyane Tertiary Care Center, University Hospital of Martinique, FWI, Fort de France (H.L.); Maladies Cardiovasculaires Infantiles et Congénitales, Lille, France (A.R.); Cardiology Department, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, APHP, Paris, France (M.G.); and Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7222, INSERM U1150 (J.N.). magalie.ladouceur@aphp.fr.

Circulation
|June 14, 2017
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