Coronary Dilatation and Endothelial Inflammation in Neonates Born to Mothers with Preeclampsia

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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the cardiovascular features and endothelium in neonates born to mothers with preeclampsia.

STUDY DESIGN: In this combined observational cohort and case-control study, neonates born to mothers with normotension and mothers with preeclampsia were recruited at a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary medical center. Cardiovascular measurements by echocardiography and the clinical measures upon admission were analyzed. Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in umbilical arteries and in in vitro endothelial cell stimulation with plasma were examined. Continuous data were compared using nonparametric analysis, and their relationships were analyzed using linear regression. Binary logistic regression was performed in the model of adjustment of birth body weight and for multivariate analysis.

RESULTS: In the cohort, almost all cardiovascular segments positively correlated to birth weight. Notably, neonates (n = 65) of mothers with preeclampsia had significantly larger coronary arteries at birth than neonates of mothers with normotension (n = 404) (median size of left main coronary artery 1.36 mm versus 1.08 mm, p <0.001; median size of right coronary artery, RCA 1.25 mm versus 1.0 mm, p <0.001). The size of the right coronary artery positively correlated to the maternal antepartum diastolic blood pressure (r = 0.298, P = .018) and was associated with in-hospital death (P < .001). Meanwhile, endothelial vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression was significantly increased in the umbilical arteries of the preeclamptic group and following preeclamptic cord-plasma stimulation. The latter also correlated with their relative coronary sizes.

CONCLUSIONS: Neonates of mothers with preeclampsia had distinctive coronary dilatation at birth. Coronary size might be useful as a severity index of neonatal endothelial inflammation as a result of maternal preeclampsia.

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CommentIn: J Pediatr. 2021 Jan;228:11-12. - PMID 32795476

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:228

Enthalten in:

The Journal of pediatrics - 228(2021) vom: 15. Jan., Seite 58-65.e3

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lin, I-Chun [VerfasserIn]
Hsu, Te-Yao [VerfasserIn]
Tain, You-Lin [VerfasserIn]
Tsai, Ching-Chang [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Hsin-Chun [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Yun-Ju [VerfasserIn]
Chou, Ming-Huei [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chien-Fu [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Hong-Ren [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Li-Tung [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular disease
Coronary artery
Endothelial inflammation
Fetal/prenatal and developmental programming
Journal Article
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Vascular cell adhesion molecule

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Date Completed 02.02.2021

Date Revised 02.02.2021

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: J Pediatr. 2021 Jan;228:11-12. - PMID 32795476

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.07.059

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312882211