Due to better medical care the population of pregnant woman with congenital cardiac disease is continuously growing. There is a special risk of maternal cardiac decompensation as a consequence of hemodynamic alterations in pregnancy. For the early detection of cardiac dysfunction there is the need for a regular sensitive and non-invasive cardiological care during pregnancy. Tissue Doppler Imaging could be a useful technique to evaluate the myocardial function, although there is still a lack of information also in normal pregnancies. In this study, we used the technique of ROI-Tracking in order to measure and analyse some typical echocardiographic parameter by Tissue Doppler Imaging during normal pregnancy.
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Due to better medical care the population of pregnant woman with congenital cardiac disease is continuously growing. There is a special risk of maternal cardiac decompensation as a consequence of hemodynamic alterations in pregnancy. For the early detection of cardiac dysfunction there is the need for a regular sensitive and non-invasive cardiological care during pregnancy. Tissue Doppler Imaging could be a useful technique to evaluate the myocardial function, although there is still a lack of i...
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