%0 Journal Article %T Original research article: Association of peripartum troponin I levels with left ventricular relaxation in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy %A Daisuke Murai %A Hiroyuki Iwano %A Hiroyuki Tsutsui %A Hisanori Minakami %A Itsuko Furuta %A Kazunori Okada %A Mamoru Morikawa %A Satoshi Ishikawa %A Satoshi Yamada %A Taichi Hayashi %A Takahiro Yamada %A Takeshi Umazume %J Archive of "Open Heart". %D 2018 %R 10.1136/openhrt-2018-000829 %X Women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) show elevated risk of heart failure despite decreased circulating plasma volume compared with those with normotensive control pregnancies (NCP). This study was performed to better characterise the heart in women with HDP and determine whether high-sensitivity troponin I (hs-TnI) around childbirth predicts reduced left ventricular (LV) relaxation at 1 month postpartum %K brain natriuretic peptide %K hypertension %K pregnancy %K relaxation %K troponin %K preeclampsia %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6144895/