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Delivering Coordinated Cardio-Obstetric Care from Preconception through Postpartum
- Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of maternal mortality globally and in the United States.
- A cardio-obstetrics team is a multidisciplinary, collaborative team that cares for women from the preconception through postpartum periods and is composed of cardiologists with training in cardio-obstetrics and adult congenital heart disease, maternal and fetal medicine specialists, anesthesiologists, and allied health care professionals.
- There are limited guidelines to standardize how cardio-obstetrics care is provided, and more work needs to be done.
- Cardio-obstetrics education needs to be better integrated in general cardiology training programs.
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