Valeria E Duarte, Kenichiro Yamamura, Katherine E Economy, Julia A Graf, Minmin Lu, Gabriele Egidy Assenza, Gauri R Karur, Anais Marenco, Ayako Ishikita, Madeline E Duncan, Tal Geva, Rachel M Wald, Anne Marie Valente
BACKGROUND: Previous reports reveal inconsistent findings of right ventricular (RV) changes following pregnancy in subjects with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF). METHODS: A two-center, retrospective cohort study which included women with rTOF who completed pregnancy that were matched to nulliparous women with rTOF by age at the time of baseline cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), RV ejection fraction (RVEF), and indexed RV end-diastolic volume (RVEDVi). Pre-pregnancy and postpartum cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) were analyzed and compared to sequential CMR of nulliparous subjects with rTOF...
April 25, 2024: American Heart Journal