Part I. Physiology of Normal Pregnancy: 1. Maternal hemodynamics in health and disease: a paradigm shift in the causation of placental syndromes Baskaran Thilaganathan; 2. Cardiovascular and volume regulatory functions in pregnancy: an overview Louis L. Peeters; 3. Cardiac function Herbert Valensise, Giuseppe Novelli and Daniele Farsetti; 4. The venous compartment in normal pregnancy Kathleen Tomsin and Wilfried Gyselaers; 5. The microcirculation Jérôme Cornette and Andreas Brückmann; 6. Plasma volume changes in pregnancy Marc E. A. Spaanderman and Anneleen S. Staelens; Part II. Pathological Pregnancy: Screening and Established Disease: 7. Arterial function in pathological pregnancies Asma Khalil and Sylvia Salvi; 8. Cardiac dysfunction in hypertensive pregnancy Herbert Valensise and Giuseppe P. Novelli; 9. Dysfunction of the venous system before and during preeclampsia Sharona Vonck and Wilfried Gyselaers; 10. Microvascular findings in pathological pregnancy Andreas Brückmann and Jérôme Cornette; Part III. Techniques: How To Do: 11. How to assess arterial function? Helen Perry, Carmel McEniery and Asma Khalil; 12. How to do a maternal venous doppler assessment? Wilfried Gyselaers; 13. Non-invasive techniques of measuring cardiac output during pregnancy Victoria Meah, Erik Stöhr and John Cockcroft; 14. Techniques of measuring plasma volume changes in pregnancy Anneleen S. Staelens and Marc Spaanderman; Part IV. Cardiovascular Therapies: 15. Treatment options of hypertension in pregnancy Lin Fung Foo, Jasmin Tay and Ian B. Wilkinson; 16. Aspirin Shireen Meher; 17. Vascular endothelial growth factor gene therapy in the management of cardiovascular problems in pregnancy Yuval Ginsberg and Anna David; 18. NO donors in preeclampsia Thomas R. Everett, Taminrit Johal and Christoph Lees; 19. Vasodilatation and fluid expansion Herbert Valensise, Damiano Lo Presti and Marc Spaanderman; Part V. Controversies: 20. Beyond temporal classification of early and late preeclampsia Enrico Ferrazzi, Daniela Di Martino, Tamara Stampalija and Maria L. Muggiasca; 21. Chemotherapy and cardiovascular function in pregnancy Kristel van Calsteren; 22. Maternal cardiovascular disease after preeclampsia Johannes Duvekot.
