Table 2.

Common cardiac conditions in parturients

Preexisting cardiac disease	Exacerbation of preexisting cardiac disease	New-onset
Rheumatic and nonrheumatic VHD	Arrhythmias, hemodynamic instability, cardiac failure, infective endocarditis, sudden death Failure of oxygenation, arrhythmias,	Severe preeclampsia/eclampsia Peripartum cardiomyopathy Cardiac failure
Congenital heart disease (CHD) Pulmonary hypertension Aortic dissection Cardiomyopathy	Eisenmenger syndrome, cardiac failure Respiratory failure, cardiac failure Acute hemodynamic deterioration, death Cardiac failure, arrhythmias, hemodynamic compromise, death
Coronary artery disease and vasospastic angina	Worsening of symptoms, arrhythmias, cardiac failure, sudden death
Arrhythmias	Hemodynamic compromise, cardiac failure, sudden death