Cardiac Structure and Function in Morbidly Obese Parturients: An Echocardiographic Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac index did not differ between obese pregnant women and those with normal BMI. Their increased left ventricular mass and lower stroke volume index could indicate a limited adaptive reserve. Obese women had minor decreases in septal left ventricular tissue Doppler velocity, but the E/E' average values did not suggest clinically significant diastolic dysfunction. PMID: 29878938 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - June 5, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Buddeberg BS, Fernandes NL, Vorster A, Cupido BJ, Lombard CJ, Swanevelder JL, Girard T, Dyer RA Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: research