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Table 4 Major adverse outcomes of parturient women with and without peripartum congestive heart failure

From: Epidemiological profile and obstetric outcomes of patients with peripartum congestive heart failure in Taiwan: a retrospective nationwide study

Major maternal adverse outcomes

PCHFa

No PCHF

Relative risk (95% CI)b

n = 512 (%)

n = 2,115,361 (%)

No PCHF birth-mother as reference

Acute pulmonary edema

48 (9.375)

240 (0.011)

826.31 (613.65–1112.67)

Cardiogenic shock

7 (1.367)

35 (0.002)

826.31 (368.75–1851.66)

Life threatening arrhythmia or cardiac arrest

4 (0.781)

88 (0.004)

187.80 (69.21–509.60)

Maternal death

3 (0.586)

376 (0.018)

32.96 (10.62–102.33)

  1. Major maternal adverse outcomes of parturient women with and without peripartum congestive heart failure during 1997–2013 in Taiwan
  2. a PCHF: peripartum congestive heart failure
  3. b CI: confidence interval