Michael C Honigberg, Katherine E Economy, Maria A Pabón, Xiaowen Wang, Claire Castro, Jenifer M Brown, Sanjay Divakaran, Brittany N Weber, Leanne Barrett, Anna Perillo, Anina Y Sun, Tajmara Antoine, Faranak Farrohi, Brenda Docktor, Emily S Lau, Doreen DeFaria Yeh, Pradeep Natarajan, Amy A Sarma, Robert M Weisbrod, Naomi M Hamburg, Jennifer E Ho, Jason D Roh, Malissa J Wood, Nandita S Scott, Marcelo F Di Carli
BACKGROUND: Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific hypertensive disorder associated with an imbalance in circulating pro- and anti-angiogenic proteins. Preclinical evidence implicates microvascular dysfunction as a potential mediator of preeclampsia-associated cardiovascular risk. METHODS: Women with singleton pregnancies complicated by severe antepartum-onset preeclampsia and a comparator group with normotensive deliveries underwent cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) within 4 weeks of delivery...
March 5, 2024: medRxiv