Doppler Echocardiographic Assessment of Pregnant Women with Chronic Arterial Hypertension

Doppler Echocardiographic Assessment of Pregnant Women with Chronic Arterial Hypertension

OBJECTIVE: To assess structural and functional cardiac changes in asymptomatic pregnant women with chronic arterial hypertension (CAH). METHODS: One hundred pregnant women with CAH underwent conventional Doppler echocardiography. The Student t test was used to compare them with 29 normotensive pregn...

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Main Authors: Nádia Cristiane de Mattia, Regina Lúcia Barbin, Vera Therezinha M. Borges, José Carlos Peraçoli, Beatriz B. Matsubara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2002-12-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Subjects:
myocardial hypertrophy
ventricular function
volume overload
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