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Echocardiographic Screening of Pregnant Women During Antenatal Care
Sponsor: Thomas Pilgrim
Summary
Non-obstetrical drivers of adverse pregnancy outcomes are underappreciated. Latent structural heart disease may account for a substantial proportion of adverse pregnancy outcomes in low-resource settings. Pregnant women presenting to B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences will be prospectively included into a registry upon their visit for antenatal care. Women will be followed until 6 weeks after the time of delivery. Nested within this registry, the investigators will perform a registry-based adaptive cluster randomized crossover trial. The trial compares an experimental condition (echocardiographic screening) and a control condition (routine antenatal care).
Official title: Effectiveness of Echocardiographic Screening of Pregnant Women During Antenatal Care
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
9000
Start Date
2021-12-01
Completion Date
2026-03-31
Last Updated
2026-01-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Transthoracic echocardiography
Transthoracic echocardiography for the detection of congenital or acquired structural heart disease.
Locations (2)
B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
Dharān, Nepal
Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital
Bern, Switzerland