Editors: Tomoaki Ikeda, Chizuko Aoki-Kamiya

2019

The advance in medical and surgical treatments for congenital heart disease has allowed many women with congenital heart disease to reach adulthood with less limitation of motility. Inherited diseases, such as channelopathies and heritable connective tissue disorders, have been able to be diagnosed in youth by genetic tests. Social background and reproductive medicine have raised the maternal age.