Azab, S., Youssef, G., Rizk, J., Mohamed Elsabbagh, A. (2025). STUDY OF CHANGES IN CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HEALTHY PREGNANT FEMALES USING 2D SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY. ALEXMED ePosters, 7(2), 13-14. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2025.375450.2140
Sahar Hamdy Azab; Gihan Magdy Youssef; Judy Tareq Rizk; Alaa Ibrahim Mohamed Elsabbagh. "STUDY OF CHANGES IN CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HEALTHY PREGNANT FEMALES USING 2D SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY". ALEXMED ePosters, 7, 2, 2025, 13-14. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2025.375450.2140
Azab, S., Youssef, G., Rizk, J., Mohamed Elsabbagh, A. (2025). 'STUDY OF CHANGES IN CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HEALTHY PREGNANT FEMALES USING 2D SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY', ALEXMED ePosters, 7(2), pp. 13-14. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2025.375450.2140
Azab, S., Youssef, G., Rizk, J., Mohamed Elsabbagh, A. STUDY OF CHANGES IN CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HEALTHY PREGNANT FEMALES USING 2D SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY. ALEXMED ePosters, 2025; 7(2): 13-14. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2025.375450.2140
STUDY OF CHANGES IN CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HEALTHY PREGNANT FEMALES USING 2D SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
2Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria
Abstract
1. Introduction Pregnancy is associated with important physiological changes in various systems of the human female including cardiovascular system. In most cases with uncomplicated pregnancy, these changes disappear after delivery. Echocardiography is still of choice as an imaging modality that allows defining, risk stratifying and monitoring cardiovascular changes during pregnancy. 2D speckle tracking Echocardiography is a novel imaging quantitative technique to accurately estimate global and regional myocardial function with objective analysis of myocardial deformation. Gestational changes in conventional echocardiographic measurements have been described, but normal changes in ventricular strain during pregnancy have not been yet fully investigated.
2. Aim The aim of this study is to assess changes in cardiac function in healthy pregnant females using 2D speckle tracking echocardiography as well as comparison with age-matched non-pregnant females as a control group.
3. Methods A prospective, single-center, observational study was performed to include 60 consecutive healthy pregnant females presenting for routine antenatal care at El-Shatby Hospital and 60 age-matched healthy non-pregnant females as a control group. Transthoracic echocardiography was performed to the control group and cases in the baseline study during the first/second trimester and the follow up study during the third trimester. 2D speckle tracking echocardiography was performed for assessment of left ventricular global and segmental longitudinal strain and right ventricular free wall longitudinal strain after optimizing image quality, maximizing frame rate, and minimizing foreshortening.
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