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.
«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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