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.

Prevalence and predictive value of electrocardiographic abnormalities in pulmonary hypertension: evidence from the Pan-African Pulmonary Hypertension Cohort (PAPUCO) study.

Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is prevalent in Africa and is still often diagnosed only at an advanced stage, therefore it is associated with poor quality of life and survival rates. In resource-limited settings, we assessed the diagnostic utility of standard 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECG) to detect abnormalities indicating PH.

Methods: Sixty-five patients diagnosed with PH were compared with 285 heart disease-free subjects.