Mid‐gestational maternal cardiovascular profile in preterm and term pre‐eclampsia: a prospective study

Abstract

Asymptomatic cardiac diastolic dysfunction is evident at mid-gestation in women who subsequently develop preterm PE but not in those who develop term PE. These cardiac findings are useful in understanding the pathophysiology of PE and corroborate the concept that PE is not a single disorder, but a cluster of symptoms that have several different aetiologies.