Echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging may help in bedside differential diagnosis of pulmonary oedema in pregnancy: case report

Michele Vassallo; Pradipta Bhakta

doi:10.5114/ait.2022.113733

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Echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging may help in bedside differential diagnosis of pulmonary oedema in pregnancy: case report

Michele C. Vassallo

¹

,

Pradipta Bhakta

²

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, ASP Syracusa, Syracuse, Italy
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Waterford, Waterford, Ireland

Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther 2022; 54, 1: 91–93

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ait.2022.113733

Online publish date: 2022/03/09

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The impact of diuretics on the foetus is controversial, and thus they are not preferred during pregnancy [1]. Excessive fluid retention during late pregnancy can lead to acute pulmonary oedema (APO), which increases the foeto-maternal morbidity and mortality [2, 3]. Reported incidence is about 0.08%, which can become 1.5% in pre-eclampsia [2–4]. Although most commonly reported during late pregnancy and early puerperium, the occurrence of APO during labour is very rare [2, 3].

Echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging may help in bedside differential diagnosis of pulmonary oedema in pregnancy: case report

Michele C. Vassallo 1 , Pradipta Bhakta 2

Michele C. Vassallo

¹

,

Pradipta Bhakta

²