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Echocardiography plays a pivotal role in noninvasively assessing hemodynamic changes and determining fetomaternal prognosis in pregnant women with various heart diseases.
Echocardiography is essential for the noninvasive assessment and risk stratification of pregnant women with underlying cardiovascular diseases.
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May support echocardiography for risk stratification in pregnant cardiac patients; leaves open prospective validation of prognostic impact.
The cardiocirculatory changes during pregnancy and delivery are marked. In some diseases and conditions, the maternal and fetal risks are high. Echocardiography plays a very important role to diagnose and to follow up in pregnant women with heart diseases, because it is noninvasive and does not expose the patients to radiation. We reviewed the value of echocardiography to determine the conditions under which women with heart disease can tolerate pregnancy, and the fetomaternal prognosis for major heart diseases.
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Kamiya et al. (2008) conducted a review in Pregnancy with and without heart disease. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography plays a pivotal role in noninvasively assessing hemodynamic changes and determining fetomaternal prognosis in pregnant women with various heart diseases.
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