Guidelines for Indication and Management of Pregnancy and Delivery in Women with Heart Disease (JCS 2010): digest version.

The latest version of the guidelines includes new findings of papers published after publication of the previous version1 to reflect the current practice. Some sections regarding obstetrics and specific diseases were revised significantly, while other sections are kept almost unchanged because few reports have been published after publication of previous version. The current guidelines include new sections of “psychosocial issues” (subsection of the “Pre-Pregnancy Counseling”), “Hemodynamic Assessment During Pregnancy”, “Drug Therapy During Pregnancy” and “Directions of Future Research”.