Why the study?
Do asymptomatic pregnant women with chronic arterial hypertension exhibit structural and functional cardiac changes on echocardiography compared to normotensive pregnant women?
Population
129 pregnant women in their third gestational trimester, comprising 100 asymptomatic women with chronic…
Comparison
Conventional Doppler echocardiography vs Normotensive pregnant women in their third…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Asymptomatic pregnant women with chronic arterial hypertension exhibit significant structural and functional cardiac changes on echocardiography, suggesting a need for routine cardiologic assessment.
Do asymptomatic pregnant women with chronic arterial hypertension exhibit structural and functional cardiac changes on echocardiography compared to normotensive pregnant women?
Asymptomatic pregnant women with chronic arterial hypertension exhibit significant structural and functional cardiac changes on echocardiography, suggesting a need for routine cardiologic assessment.
Mattia et al. (2002) studied this question.
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