The fetal cardiovascular response to antenatal steroids in severe early-onset intrauterine growth restriction

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to study the hemodynamic effects of betamethasone on fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) with absent or reversed end-diastolic (ARED) umbilical artery flow. STUDY DESIGN: Color/pulsed Doppler waveforms were obtained before and after intramuscular injections of betamethasone in 19 consecutive fetuses with IUGR/ARED and 6 control fetuses. Peak velocities and pulsatility index (PI) values were obtained from …

Authors

Simchen MJ; Alkazaleh F; Adamson SL; Windrim R; Telford J; Beyene J; Kingdom J

Journal

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 190, No. 2, pp. 296–304

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

February 2004

DOI

10.1016/j.ajog.2003.08.011

ISSN

0002-9378

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Joseph Beyene

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences

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