Karen L Florio, Emily M Williams, Darcy White, Tara Daming, Sarah Hostetter, Tabitha Schrufer-Poland, Rebecca Gray, Laura Schmidt, Anna Grodzinsky, John Lee, Valerie Rader, Kathleen Swearingen, Lynne Nelson, Neil Patel, Anthony Magalski, Kensey Gosch, Philip Jones, Zhuxuan Fu, John A Spertus
BACKGROUND: The physiological changes to the cardiovascular system during pregnancy are considerable and are more pronounced in those with cardiac disease. In the general population, noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring is a valid alternative to pulmonary artery catheterization, which poses risk in the pregnant population. There is limited data on noninvasive cardiac output monitoring in pregnancy as an alternative to pulmonary artery catheterization. OBJECTIVE: We sought to compare transthoracic echocardiography with a noninvasive cardiac output monitor (NICOM, Cheetah Medical) in pregnant patients with and without cardiac disease...
March 2024: American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM