[Maternal cardiopathy in relation to perinatal morbidity and mortality]

Reference is made to pregnancy risks, including spontaneous abortion, prematurity, and foetal retardation, for women with haemodynamically important cardiopathies. The risk may be mitigated by high-continuity extended medical care in centres for cardio-angiopathies of women in pregnancy. Attention should be given in such centres not only to congenital and acquired cardiac defects, but to all circulatory disorders as well as to some diseases of the respiratory system.