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UnknownNCT00522977
Echo-Cardiographic Assessment of Cardiovascular Characteristics During Pregnancy and Postpartum Periods
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 400 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Hillel Yaffe Medical Center · Other Government
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this echocardiographic study is to restudy the longitudinal changes in cardiac size and function during and after pregnancy in healthy women using relatively new parameters of systolic and diastolic function as well as classical measures of left ventricle (LV) function using contemporary echocardiographic machines. We, the researchers at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, will assess diastolic function and its possible relation to shortness of breath.
Detailed description
A comprehensive echocardiographic study of the heart will be conducted in the first, second and third trimesters of pregnancy and 3 months postpartum. Determination of left ventricular dimensions, transvalvular Doppler flow, ejection fraction, stroke volume, cardiac output, pulmonary vein flow, tissue Doppler, flow propagation, global and segmental strain parameters, timing of peak strain and various parameters of diastolic function will be obtained. From these data normal values for various stages of pregnancy will be determined as well as range for changes expected during longitudinal follow-up will be determined.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2007-08-01
- Completion
- 2009-09-01
- First posted
- 2007-08-30
- Last updated
- 2008-02-29
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Israel
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00522977. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.