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Is It Advisable To Conceive Having Diagnosed With Congenital Cardiac Anomaly?

Hello I don't know whether you will answer this e-mail or not but this is really important for me:( I am from Turkey. a 25 year old female and married. I have a bicuspid aorta and consider pregnancy.It is a congenital cardiac anomaly. Of course in Turkey I asked lots of cardiologist whether I should do it or not but they have said me that there are risks but noone can't know what may happen during the pregnancy because there isn't lots of person like me. so I can't decide:( After describing my situation briefly I will try to write something from my last echocardiography test.

Peak Gradient(mm Hg):65.00

Mean Gradient(mm Hg):37.00



Now I will try to translate my doctor's comment on my test. I don't know lots of the terms.



Heart blanks are normal. Aorta is thick and bicuspid. It's expansion is limited. Aort radix is 2.5 cm. The other valves are normal. Light-middle aorta insufficiency and tricuspid insufficiency.

I don't whether I could explain it. What do you advise me?

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Thu, 29 Dec 2016
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hi,
it looks like you are bicuspid aortic valve and other other abnormalities in your body.
There is 9% risk of similar disease in first degree relatives. So there is 1 in 10 probability of your child having the same.
I think it's worth to this much risk and go ahead with pregnancy but pregnancy being a stressful condition you should discuss with your gynaecologist whether you ll be able to tolerate it or not.
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Is It Advisable To Conceive Having Diagnosed With Congenital Cardiac Anomaly?

hi, it looks like you are bicuspid aortic valve and other other abnormalities in your body. There is 9% risk of similar disease in first degree relatives. So there is 1 in 10 probability of your child having the same. I think it s worth to this much risk and go ahead with pregnancy but pregnancy being a stressful condition you should discuss with your gynaecologist whether you ll be able to tolerate it or not.