Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Postpartum Pulmonary Artery Pressure

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

900 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-12-20

Study Completion Date

2028-12-31

Brief Summary

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The primary goal of this observational study is to learn about postpartum pulmonary artery pressure in women who suffered from Preeclampsia and Antiphospholipid Syndrome.

The main question it aims to answer is whether the conjunction of preeclampsia with obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome significantly foster the development of long-lasting pulmonary hypertension.

Only participants who suffered from preeclampsia during pregnancy will be followed for a period up to 3 years postpartum. Researchers will compare women with or without obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome.

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Detailed Description

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Preeclampsia (PE), a multisystem disease affecting 2-8% of all pregnancies is a major cause of mother and child mortality and morbidity worldwide. On the long term, women who suffered from PE during pregnancy are prone to develop various cardiovascular diseases including arterial hypertension, heart failure, aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation and atrial fibrillation.

In an effort to prevent or early detect any potential cardiovascular complications in this population, the investigators implemented in Inselspital, 6 years ago, a join consultation between cardiologist and obstetrician. Since 2016, a roughly 100 women/year have been followed at this consultation. As part of this follow-up, in addition to a clinical examination, echocardiography, blood sampling and 24h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring were performed. To the best of the investigators knowledge, this represent the first cohort of this kind in Switzerland. Therefore, it offers a unique opportunity to study the effect of PE on the long term cardiovascular phenotype.

Although the majority of PE are of unknown origin a fraction is due to an autoimmune disease, the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS). APS is known to triple the risk of developing PE and is found in up to 20% in women with the most severe forms of PE. There are two distinguished entities of APS, one associated with vascular complications (vascular APS) and one associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes (obstetric APS (oAPS)). In the former form, the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension has been reported to be between 2% and 17% (incidence in the general population \~ 1/100'000) but remain unknown in oAPS. This is of prime importance as pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease with elevated mortality and limited treatment availability. Furthermore, for unknown raison, women have up to seven times the risk of men to develop PH. Here, the investigators hypothesize that oAPS could be an unrecognized risk factor for the development of PH in women.

In patients who suffered from PE, epidemiological studies shown that the risk for developing arterial hypertension, stroke or heart failure is 2-4 fold higher. But structured follow-up to better target this population is missing. Our established interdisciplinary consultation offer a unique possibility to better understand the link between PE and cardiovascular outcomes later in life. Therefore, the investigators further aimed in this study, first to assess the prevalence of the above mentioned cardiovascular outcomes, and second, to establish prediction models, for example for the development of arterial hypertension in patient that suffered from PE.

The primary objective of this study is to compare the postpartum pulmonary arterial pressure measured non-invasively by echocardiography in women after PE with or without oAPS by collecting routine data for the analysis.The secondary objective is to compare the right and left cardiac function using echocardiography images and the systemic blood pressure between both groups by collecting routine data for the analysis. Further, the investigators aimed to assess the prevalence of arterial hypertension in this population, 3 years postpartum and establish a prediction model of the development of arterial hypertension by collecting routine data for the analysis.

The investigators are planning a single center retrospective and prospective study where routine data is collected to evaluate the objectives described above. In particular, demographic, biophysical as well as echocardiographic parameters of all the patients whose pregnancies were complicated by preeclampsia, and were or will be referred after delivery to our outpatient clinic will be collected and analyzed. All consenting patients (see chapter 9) followed between 2016 and 2025 will be enrolled. All data will be collected during a period ranging from 2016 to 2028 encompassing the first patient enrolment in 2016 and the end of the 3 years routine follow-up of the last patient enrolled in 2025.

Conditions

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Pre-Eclampsia; Complicating Pregnancy Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Pregnancy Pulmonary Hypertension

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Preeclampsia without obstetric Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Women in this group wil be followed during 3 years. Echocardiography images, 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring will be collected.