Megan Hall, Antonio de Marvao, Ronny Schweitzer, Daniel Cromb, Kathleen Colford, Priya Jandu, Declan P O'Regan, Alison Ho, Anthony Price, Lucy C Chappell, Mary A Rutherford, Lisa Story, Pablo Lamata, Jana Hutter
BACKGROUND: Pre-eclampsia is a multiorgan disease of pregnancy that has short- and long-term implications for the woman and fetus, whose immediate impact is poorly understood. We present a novel multi-system approach to MRI investigation of pre-eclampsia, with acquisition of maternal cardiac, placental, and fetal brain anatomical and functional imaging. METHODS: A prospective study was carried out recruiting pregnant women with pre-eclampsia, chronic hypertension, or no medical complications, and a non-pregnant female cohort...
April 25, 2023: medRxiv