Maternal left ventricular function and adverse neonatal outcomes in women with cardiac disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the relationship between maternal left ventricular systolic function, utero-placental circulation, and risk of adverse neonatal outcomes in women with cardiac disease.

Methods

119 women managed in the pregnancy heart clinic (2019-2021) were identified. Women were classified by their primary cardiac condition. Adverse neonatal outcomes were: low birth weight (< 2500 g), small-for-gestational-age (< 10th birth-weight centile), pre-term delivery (< 37 weeks' gestation), and fetal demise (> 20 weeks' gestation). Parameters of left ventricular systolic function (global longitudinal strain, radial strain, ejection fraction, average S', and cardiac output) were calculated and pulsatility index was recorded from last growth scan.

Results

Adverse neonatal o

SUBMITTER: Eggleton EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10110658 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature