Maternal cardiovascular function in the prediction of fetal distress in labor: a prospective cohort study.

Ilenia Mappa Maria Luviso Silvio Tartaglia Pavjola Maqina Jia Li Angela Lu Alexander Makatsarya Giuseppe Rizzo

Published in: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians (2021)

Pre-labor modifications of maternal cardiovascular variables are associated with adverse perinatal outcome. However, their predictive accuracy for perinatal compromise is low, and thus their use as standalone screening test for adverse perinatal outcome in singleton pregnancies at term is not supported.

Keyphrases

birth weight
gestational age
pregnant women
pregnancy outcomes
preterm birth
preterm infants
weight gain
adverse drug