Summary
This study investigated the cardiac function characteristics of patients with severe preeclampsia (SPE) using two-dimensional ultrasound (2D) and triplane tissue Doppler imaging (TDI). The results showed that patients with SPE had significantly different left and right ventricular function compared to healthy nonpregnant women and normal pregnant women.
Specifically, patients with SPE had higher left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDd), left ventricular relative wall thickness (LV-RWT), left ventricular mass index (LVMi), left anterior descending (LAD), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and right ventricular diameter (RV-D) compared to the control and normal groups.
Conversely, the SPE group had lower mitral annular plane systolic excursion (MAPSE), tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE), ratio of early diastolic blood flow velocity to late diastolic blood flow velocity (E/A), ratio of peak early diastolic velocity to peak late diastolic velocity (E’/A’), peak early diastolic velocity (E’), and ejection fraction (EF) compared to the control and normal groups.
