Contemporary Topics in Cardio-Obstetrics
暫譯: 當代心臟產科主題

心血管疾病目前是美國孕婦及產後婦女的主要死亡原因。懷孕可能會加劇已知的心血管疾病，並揭示先前未被認識的問題。心臟產科領域正在興起，對於改善護理品質有明確的需求。

本書是第一本專門針對當代及實用心臟產科主題的權威且全面的著作。它提供了心臟代謝疾病、不良妊娠結果、心肌病、缺血性心臟病、母體休克及妊娠期間結構性心臟病的病理生理學、生物分子學、遺傳學、影像特徵、轉化及臨床應用的最新且高度插圖的綜述，並探討這些疾病在母體及胎兒結果中的角色。

本書向讀者傳達了懷孕與心血管疾病及風險因素之間新興相互作用的當代觀點，並專注於妊娠中複雜疾病的病理生理學、產科及心臟管理。此外，本書還討論了從預防心臟病學到重症護理及晚期心臟衰竭等多種妊娠疾病的臨床意涵及治療目標。

《當代心臟產科主題》是心臟病學、內分泌學、基層醫療及健康促進與疾病預防領域的醫生、住院醫師、研究員及醫學生的重要資源。

Dr. Garima Sharma is a national leader in Women's Health and Preventive Cardiology. She is the Director of Women's Cardiovascular Health Program and the Director of Cardio-Obstetrics at Inova Health System, which is a service line between Inova Women's Program and Inova Heart and Vascular Institute. She did her training at Temple University Hospital, PA and subsequently was on faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. She is the founder of the Cardio-Obstetrics Program at Hopkins. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the management of cardiovascular disease in women across the life span. She has published over 100 per review articles in top tier academic journals. She has also led several national and international educational conferences in women's cardiovascular health. Her clinical and research interests are in cardiovascular disease in women especially pregnancy, preeclampsia, maternal obesity, health disparities, post-partum prevention of complications from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, addressing cardiovascular health in women and gender inequities in science and medicine. She is a member of the ACC Women in Cardiology Leadership Council and also the AHA Council of Clinical Cardiology's Women and Underrepresented Populations. . Her research has been awarded funding from NIH and American Heart Association, March of Dimes and she has published extensively in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, Journal of American Medical Association on women's health.
Nandita Scott, MD, is an Assistant Professor Medicine at Harvard Medical School, in the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the Co-Director of the MGH Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program as well as the Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Section at MGH. Her research and interests focus on spontaneous coronary artery dissection as well as cardiovascular disease and pregnancy and she will be one of the principal investigators of the HOPE registry - a multicentre US based pregnancy registry. She is the senior author on the Expert Panel: Use of Cardiac Biomarkers during Pregnancy. She also serves on the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease in Women Committee . As a result of her efforts in improving cardiology care for women she has received several awards including: the American Heart Association Physician of the Year for Cape Cod and Islands, two Partners in Excellence awards, placed on the Honor role of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Committee on Women in Medicine as well receiving the Massachusetts Medical Society Women's Health Research Award.

Dr. Melinda Davis is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Universityof Michigan. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is the Cardiology Director of the University of Michigan Cardio-Obstetrics Program. She serves on the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Cardio-Obstetrics Workgroup and has experience on the Michigan Maternal Mortality Review Committee of the Department of Health and Human Services and the ACC Cardiovascular Disease in Women Committee. Her clinical and research interests focus on pregnancy-related cardiovascular disease, including peripartum cardiomyopathy and pregnancy-associated heart failure. Dr. Davis is dedicated to medical education and serves as the Fellowship Program Director for Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Katherine Economy is Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and is in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the Co-Director of the Program for Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her clinical and research interests focus on pregnancy-related cardiovascular disease obstetric outcomes in patients with heart disease, intrapartum management and reproductive decision making. Additional research and clinical interests are in cancer in pregnancy. She has long been involved in medical education and has served as a member of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship committee and on the Milestone Committee for the ACGME. She is the Fellowship Program Director for the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship and the Combined Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine and Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Garima Sharma 博士 是女性健康與預防心臟病學的全國領導者。她是 Inova Health System 女性心血管健康計畫的主任以及心臟產科的主任，該計畫是 Inova 女性計畫與 Inova 心臟與血管研究所之間的服務線。她在賓夕法尼亞州的 Temple University Hospital 進行培訓，隨後在馬里蘭州的 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 擔任教職。她是 Hopkins 心臟產科計畫的創始人。她在女性心血管疾病的管理方面擁有豐富的知識和經驗，涵蓋整個生命週期。她在頂尖學術期刊上發表了超過 100 篇的同行評審文章。她還主導了多個全國和國際的女性心血管健康教育會議。她的臨床和研究興趣集中在女性的心血管疾病，特別是妊娠、高血壓先兆症、母體肥胖、健康差異、產後高血壓疾病併發症的預防、自發性冠狀動脈剝離、女性心血管健康以及科學和醫學中的性別不平等。她是美國心臟病學會（ACC）女性心臟病學領導委員會的成員，也是美國心臟協會（AHA）臨床心臟病學委員會的女性和少數族裔成員。她的研究獲得了 NIH 和美國心臟協會、March of Dimes 的資助，並在《美國心臟病學會雜誌》、《循環》、《美國醫學會雜誌》等期刊上廣泛發表有關女性健康的文章。
Nandita Scott 醫生 是哈佛醫學院內科助理教授，任職於麻薩諸塞州總醫院的心臟病學部門。她是 MGH Corrigan 女性心臟健康計畫的共同主任，也是 MGH 心血管醫學部的主任。她的研究和興趣集中在自發性冠狀動脈剝離以及心血管疾病與妊娠，並將成為 HOPE 註冊的主要研究者之一——這是一個基於美國的多中心妊娠註冊。她是《專家小組：妊娠期間心臟生物標記的使用》的資深作者。她還在美國心臟病學會的女性心血管疾病委員會任職。由於她在改善女性心臟病護理方面的努力，她獲得了多項獎項，包括：美國心臟協會的年度醫生獎（Cape Cod 和 Islands）、兩項卓越夥伴獎、麻薩諸塞醫學會榮譽名單的成員，以及麻薩諸塞醫學會女性健康研究獎。

Melinda Davis 博士 是密西根大學心血管醫學部的副教授。她與婦產科部門有聯合任命，並擔任密西根大學心臟產科計畫的心臟病學主任。她在美國心臟病學會（ACC）心臟產科工作組任職，並在密西根州健康與人類服務部的母體死亡率審查委員會和 ACC 女性心血管疾病委員會中擁有經驗。她的臨床和研究興趣集中在妊娠相關的心血管疾病，包括圍產期心肌病和妊娠相關心力衰竭。Davis 博士致力於醫學教育，並擔任密西根大學心血管醫學的獎學金計畫主任。
Katherine Economy 博士 是哈佛醫學院婦產科助理教授，任職於麻薩諸塞州布萊根婦女醫院的母胎醫學部門。她是布萊根婦女醫院妊娠心血管疾病計畫的共同主任。她的臨床和研究興趣集中在妊娠相關的心血管疾病、心臟病患者的產科結果、產程管理和生育決策。其他研究和臨床興趣包括妊娠中的癌症。她長期參與醫學教育，曾擔任母胎醫學學會獎學金委員會成員以及 ACGME 的里程碑委員會成員。她是布萊根婦女醫院母胎醫學獎學金和母胎醫學與遺傳學聯合獎學金的計畫主任。