Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease

Prof. Jolien Roos-Hesselink has worked as a cardiologist since 1992 at the Erasmus MC, Department Congenital Cardiology. In 1987 she obtained her medical degree at the University of Utrecht. In 2004 she defended at the Erasmus University her thesis "Congenital Heart Disease at Adult Age". Her clinical work and research interests lie in the area of adults with congenital heart defects, with special attention to the aortic valve defects and aortic pathology and pregnancy in people with heart disease. She was appointed in 2009 as Professor and Head of the Department of Congenital Cardiology at Erasmus MC. She is a board member of the European Working Group for congenital heart defects of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and founder and chairman of a major global registry on pregnancy in people with heart disease (ROPAC).

Fetal Heart Disease.- Contraception and Cardiovascular Disease.- Pre-conception Counseling.- Inheritance of Congenital Heart Disease.- Care During Pregnancy.- The Management of Labour and the Postpartum Period in CHD.- Pregnancy in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot.- Transposition of the Great Arteries.- Shunt Lesions.- Aortic Stenosis.- Pregnancy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Aortopathy.- Aortic Coarctation.- Ebstein Anomaly.- Fontan.- Cyanotic lesions.- Pulmonary hypertension.- Pulmonic stenosis.