We performed longitudinal examinations of the arterial retinal microvasculature using Adaptive Optics Retinal Imaging in a 30-year-old healthy woman with twin pregnancy from the 23rd week of gestation (wog) to three days postpartum. Two blinded graders recorded the average wall-to-lumen ratio (WLR) of the examined retinal artery. There was a significant increase in the mean WLR over the course of pregnancy followed by a decreasing WLR from the 37th wog. The demonstrated changes in WLR may be an expression of vascular remodeling and adaptation to volume load which indicates that pregnancy can be viewed as a cardiovascular stress test.

• MeSH
• arteria centralis retinae * MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• hypertenze * MeSH
• krevní tlak MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• preeklampsie * MeSH
• srdce MeSH
• těhotenství MeSH
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• dospělí MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• těhotenství MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• kazuistiky MeSH