Medical Conditions in Obstetric Patients

This page covers the management of medical conditions in parturients, in line with the curriculum item asking us to understand "the influence of common concurrent medical diseases on pregnancy".

This non-exhaustive list covers topics which are common, have been the subject of previous CRQ questions or feature in fairly recent BJA Education articles.

• Respiratory disease in pregnancy


• Cardiovascular disorders
• Cardiac disease (in general)
• Arrhythmias
• Pulmonary hypertension


• Haematological disorders
• Haematological disease (in general)
• Venous Thromboembolism
• Thrombocytopaenia
• Sickle cell disease
• Anticoagulants


• Neurological disorders
• Myasthenia gravis
• Epilepsy
• Intracranial pathology


• Other
• Liver disease
• Obesity
• HIV
• Phaeochromocytoma
• Substance use disorder in pregnancy (from the Perioperative Medicine section)