Evaluation of Fetal Cardiac Function in Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography.

Peina HuangYou-Bin DengLing FengYiping GaoXueqing ChengHongyun Liu

Published in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2022)

Fetuses exposed to GDM may have cardiac dysfunction before the onset of cardiac morphologic abnormalities, and the right ventricle is more vulnerable than the left during fetal development.

Keyphrases

left ventricular
pulmonary hypertension
pregnancy outcomes
pregnant women
computed tomography
oxidative stress
pulmonary artery
birth weight
heart failure
gestational age
physical activity
pulmonary arterial hypertension
weight gain