Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program

Our approach to cardiovascular disease and pregnancy care

Heart problems during pregnancy require a multidisciplinary team of specialists to provide comprehensive and personalized care for you and your baby. Our team works closely together with you to provide coordinated care among the following specialists:

• Maternal-fetal medicine doctors
• Cardiologists
• Obstetric anesthesiologists
• Critical care and obstetric nursing
• Other providers to support you through pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum recovery

Together, your care team helps anticipate risks, manage symptoms, and protect both maternal and fetal health.

Our program is grounded in research that advances care for people with heart disease during pregnancy. By studying pregnancy-related cardiovascular, our team helps translate discoveries into safer, more effective care for patients everywhere.

Since implementing a standardized care approach, we have followed over 950 pregnancies in individuals with cardiac disease, helping inform care for patients at Mass General Brigham and beyond.

We are committed to improving maternal heart health through education and advocacy. By raising awareness among patients, clinicians, and communities, we help promote earlier diagnosis, safer care pathways, and better outcomes for high-risk pregnancies.

Our faculty are leaders in education and have developed national training programs for specialists in cardiology and maternal-fetal medicine. By advancing how clinicians are trained, we help improve the safety and coordination of care for patients with heart conditions during pregnancy.