Key result
Pregnancy triggers chamber enlargement on echocardiography, led by a ~20% increase in RV size.
Why the study?
Diagnosing and managing cardiac disease in pregnant women is challenging due to physiological changes and limitations of other imaging modalities.
Population
Pregnant women with or at risk of cardiac disease
Comparison
Echocardiography as imaging modality vs other diagnostic imaging modalities
Design
Review
Authors
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Echocardiography supports safe cardiac evaluation and monitoring in pregnancy; leaves open prospective validation of diagnostic protocols in this population.
Echocardiography is the preferred, safe imaging modality for assessing physiological cardiovascular changes and diagnosing cardiac diseases in pregnant women.
Wan Joo Shim (2014) conducted a review in Cardiac disease in pregnancy. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography reveals that during pregnancy, the right ventricle increases in size by 20% and the left ventricle and left atrium increase by 10% and 12%, respectively.
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