Pregnancy and childbirth in a patient with aortic coarctation

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the actual problems in obstetrics the pregnancy follow-up in patients with structural cardiac pathology. The presented clinical case demonstrates a patient with congenital heart disease, inherited obstetrical and gynecological history and the COVID-19 infection during pregnancy. Despite the clinically significant cardiac pathology, the patient delivered at full term of 37 weeks through the natural birth canal. The analysis of the clinical case allows us to conclude that a favorable prognosis of pregnancy and childbirth in women with aortic coarctation is possible with the pregnancy follow-up and delivery in specialized cardiology centers.