[Women with cardio-angiopathies before conception (author's transl)]

Extended medical care for pregnant women with cardio-angiopathies is discussed in this paper. High-continuity follow-up checks should begin in early childhood and conducted also in adult age, prior to conception. Appropriate medical documentation, including radiographs, should be complied well prior to pregnancy, to avoid X-ray examination during gravidity.--Also discussed is dicumarol treatment of pregnant carriers of artificial cardiac valves. Any treatment of cardio-angiopathy should be best timed to periods before conception to the benefit of better family planning. Extended medical care should be persistently implemented with high continuity as an integral part of medical programmes extended by district centres to pregnant women with cardio-angiopathies.