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HYPERTENSION
Volume 74, Issue 3, Pages 705-715Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13015
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cardiac output; heart; preeclampsia; pulse wave analysis
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- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [P01 HD065647-01A1]
- J. Robert and Mary Cade Professorship of Physiology
- University of Florida College of Medicine
- University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute [UL1TR001427]
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Commonly used in vitro fertilization protocols produce pregnancies without a corpus luteum (CL), a major source of reproductive hormones. In vitro fertilization pregnancies without a CL showed deficient gestational increases of central (aortic) arterial compliance during the first trimester and were at increased risk for developing preeclampsia. Here, we investigated whether there was generalized impairment of cardiovascular adaptation in in vitro fertilization pregnancies without a CL compared with pregnancies conceived spontaneously or through ovarian stimulation, which lead to 1 and >1 CL, respectively (n=19-26 participants per cohort). Prototypical maternal cardiovascular adaptations of gestation were serially evaluated noninvasively, initially during the follicular phase before conception, 6x in pregnancy, and then, on average, 1.6 years post-partum. The expected increases of cardiac output, left atrial dimension, peak left ventricular filling velocity in early diastole (E wave velocity), peripheral/central arterial pulse pressure ratio, and global AC, as well as decrease in augmentation index were significantly attenuated or absent during the first trimester in women who conceived without a CL, when compared with the 1 and >1 CL cohorts, which were comparable. Thereafter, these cardiovascular measures showed recovery in the 0 CL group except for E wave velocity, which remained depressed. These results provided strong support for a critical role of CL factor(s) in the transformation of the maternal cardiovascular system in early gestation. Regimens that lead to the development of a CL or replacement of missing CL factor(s) may be indicated to improve cardiovascular function and reduce preeclampsia risk in in vitro fertilization pregnancies.
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