Impaired growth and risk of fetal death: is the tenth percentile the appropriate standard?

Article Abstract:

The threshold for identifying infants with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) should be raised from the 10th to the 15th percentile. Infants with IUGR have an increased risk of adverse outcomes. An infant in the 10th percentile of body weight for gestational age is considered to have IUGR. Researchers classified all live births in Virginia between 1991 and 1993 by birth weight and analyzed the rate of adverse outcomes in these infants. Infants in the 10th through the 15th percentile had twice the risk of an adverse outcome as infants in higher percentiles.

Fetus, Fetal growth retardation, Growth disorders, Body weight

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Diagnostic mid trimester amniocentesis: how safe?

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to establish an estimate of procedure-related pregnancy loss after mid-trimester amniocentesis and also to examine the impact of placental puncture on the rate of loss and the risk of directed needle injury to the fetus. The contemporary amniocentesis with concurrent ultrasound guidance was found to be associated with a procedure-related rate of excess pregnancy loss of 0.33% and the use of concurrent ultrasound guidance reduced the number of punctures and the incidence of bloody fluid.

United States, Science & research, Research, Usage, Pregnancy, Complications of, Pregnancy complications, Amniocentesis, Diagnosis, Ultrasonic, Diagnostic ultrasonography

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Does augmented growth impose an increased risk of fetal death?

Article Abstract:

Newborn babies who weigh more than normal do not have an increased risk of death unless the increased weight is a result of maternal diabetes. This was the conclusion of a study of 278,415 live births and 764 stillbirths at one hospital over a three-year period.

Health aspects, Patient outcomes, Mortality, Infant mortality, Body size, Body weights and measures, Diabetes in pregnancy, Gestational diabetes, Fetal macrosomia

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