Anticoagulant therapy in pregnant women with mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to review maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves.

Methods: A retrospective record review of pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves on anticoagulation was performed at the Specialist Cardiac Antenatal Clinic, Johannesburg South Africa from 2015 to 2023.

Results: Fifty pregnancies with mechanical heart valves and three with tissue valves, on anticoagulation for comorbid atrial fibrillation were identified.

Pregnancy in women with cardiac disease: a one-year retrospective review of management and maternal and neonatal outcomes in a tertiary hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Introduction: In South Africa, cardiac disease continues to be the most important non-obstetric cause of maternal death.

Methods: A record review of 74 pregnant women with cardiac disease was performed to determine the prevalence and outcomes of cardiac disease at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital between January and December 2017.

Results: Rheumatic heart disease was the most common cardiac diagnosis ( = 21, 28.