Maternal hemodynamics in screen-positive and screen-negative women of the ASPRE trial

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Abstract

Objective: To compare maternal hemodynamics and perinatal outcome, in pregnancies that do not develop pre-eclampsia (PE) or deliver a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonate, between those identified at 11–13 weeks' gestation as being screen positive or negative for preterm PE, by a combination of maternal factors, mean arterial pressure, uterine artery pulsatility index, serum placental growth factor and pregnancy associated plasma protein-A. Methods: This was a prospective longitudinal cohort study of maternal cardiovascular function, assessed using a bioreactance method, in women undergoing first-trimester screening for PE. Maternal hemodynamics and perinatal outcome were compared between screen-positive and screen-negative women who did not have a medical comorbidity, did not develop PE or pregnancy-induced hypertension and delivered at term a live neonate with birth weight between the 5 th and 95 th percentiles. A multilevel linear mixed-effects model was used to compare the repeated measures of cardiac variables, controlling for maternal characteristics. Results: The screen-negative group (n = 926) had normal cardiac function changes across gestation, whereas the screen-positive group (n = 170) demonstrated static or reduced cardiac output and stroke volume and higher mean arterial pressure and peripheral vascular resistance with advancing gestation. In the screen-positive group, compared with screen-negative women, birth-weight Z-score was shifted toward lower values, with prevalence of delivery of a neonate below the 35 th, 30 th or 25 th percentile being about 70% higher, and the rate of operative delivery for fetal distress in labor also being higher. Conclusion: Women who were screen positive for impaired placentation, even though they did not develop PE or deliver a SGA neonate, had pathological cardiac adaptation in pregnancy and increased risk of adverse perinatal outcome.

Original languageEnglish
JournalUltrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Early online date24 Sept 2018
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 24 Sept 2018

Keywords

  • bioreactance
  • cardiac output
  • fetal growth restriction
  • hemodynamic
  • peripheral vascular resistance
  • placental insufficiency
  • pre-eclampsia screening

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