Evidence That Normal Fetal Growth Can Be Noncontinuous
| Autor: | Ira M. Bernstein, Brian Wall, Gary J. Badger, Kimberly Blake |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Percentile Cephalometry Birth weight Pulsatile flow Gestational Age Crown-Rump Length Ultrasonography Prenatal Diagnosis Differential Embryonic and Fetal Development Pregnancy Reference Values Internal medicine Humans Medicine Normal glucose tolerance Fetus Fetal Growth Retardation Normal fetal growth business.industry Obstetrics Ultrasound Infant Newborn Obstetrics and Gynecology General Medicine Endocrinology Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Gestation Female medicine.symptom business Weight gain |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. 4:197-201 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4954 1476-7058 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/14767059509025370 |
| Popis: | Fetal growth is presumed by current models to be continuous. We hypothesized that normal fetal growth is not continuous and that it demonstrates a pulsatile pattern. Fetal morphometric parameters were examined in 9 healthy women at an average interval of 2.7 days between 25 and 36 weeks gestation using an Acuson XP3 unit (Mountain View, CA) employing a 3.5 MHz curvilinear transducer. Parameters examined included biparietal diameter (BPD), abdominal circumference (AC), femur length (FL), and humeral length (HL). Mothers had normal prepregnancy weight, were nonsmokers, had normal glucose tolerance screening, and were without medical complications. Mean maternal age was 28.7 ± 5.8 years (S.D.) and mean maternal weight gain was 16.8 ± 3.3 kg. All neonates were born at term (range 39–42 weeks), without anomalies and a mean percentile birth weight at the 53rd centile (range 20–95th). Wald-Wolfowitz runs test was used to test for nonrandom patterns in the residuals from the fitted regression curve. When modeled ... |
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