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...Evelyn A. Huhn; Maren I. Müller; Andrea H. Meyer; Gwendolin Manegold-Brauer; Wolfgang Holzgreve; Irene Hoesli; Frank H. Wilhelm Background: Fetal electrocardiography using an abdominal monitor (Monica AN24™) could increase the diagnostic use of fetal heart rate (fHR) variability measurements...

... cord pH at birth. The main outcome was determined by a correlation between STV and neonatal pH. Results: The last computerized fetal heart rate analysis took place a mean of 7.9 ± 6.3 h before birth, and neonatal acidosis was diagnosed in 38 newborns (23.9%). Although STV and umbilical artery pH...

...Young-Sun Park; Jeong-Kyu Hoh; Seung-Kwon Koh; Jinho Shin; Moon-Il Park Objective: To compare the test duration times and rate of nonreactive results between the conventional linear reactive criteria (CLRC) and the modified nonlinear reactive criteria (MNRC) in electronic fetal heart rate (FHR...

...Olivier Multon; Marie-Victoire Senat; Sepanda Minoui; Marie-Véronique Hue; René Frydman; Yves Ville Purpose: To study the effect of betamethasone and dexamethasone on fetal heart rate in 55 growth-retarded fetuses. Material and Methods: Fifty-five fetuses with intrauterine growth retardation were...

...R.J.M. Snijders; R. McLaren; K.H. Nicolaides Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring and computer-assisted analysis of FHR patterns were used to study 190 normal pregnancies on one occasion at 20–41 weeks’ gestation. The mean baseline FHR decreased, while the overall FHR variation, number...

... and there were no major maternal complications. Maternal abdominal radiation was always less than 0.2 mSv. Fetal heart rate was monitored during the procedure and showed only minor abnormalities. The outcomes of these 11 pregnancies were: 4 vaginal deliveries after 37 weeks, 5 cesarean sections after 37 weeks...

... during labour. The Doppler signal was recorded using the abdominal route at the level of the fetal internal carotid. The diastolic carotid index was used (DCI = D/S). In 5 cases, fetal heart rate (FHR) was normal during labour and the DCI was on average comparable for each of the patients and the mean...

...Junichi Hasegawa; Ryu Matsuoka; Kiyotake Ichizuka; Mihoko Kotani; Azumi Ohmori; Masamitsu Nakamura; Akihiko Sekizawa; Takashi Okai Objectives: It was the aim of this study to examine intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) patterns in oligohydramnios. Methods: Subjects comprised 24 singleton pregnant...

...-administered nimesulide at 39 weeks of gestation due to lower back pain. Less than 24 h later premature ductal constriction was diagnosed by echocardiography following a suspicious fetal heart rate recording with baseline tachycardia and absent accelerations. Conclusion: In a term pregnancy, nimesulide...

...D.S. McKenna; G. Ventolini; R. Neiger; C. Downing Objective: Many expecting parents wish to ascertain fetal gender early in pregnancy. Our goal was to determine whether fetal heart rate (FHR) of males and females during the first trimester is significantly different. Materials and Methods: From...

...Kazuo Maeda; Takashi Nagasawa Objectives: Computerized automatic detection of pathologic fetal sinusoidal heart rate (FSHR) and its differentiation from physiologic FSHR is the purpose of this study. The results will be applied in the objective evaluation of fetal heart rate (FHR) with artificial...

...Shahram Akhlaghpoor; Taraneh Hosseinipoor Objective: Fetal heart rate (FHR) variation during chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a controversial topic. Limited studies have been published on this subject. Our study intended to evaluate the effects of CVS on the FHR. Method: One hundred and sixty...

...Kazuo Maeda; Yasuaki Noguchi; Fujihiko Matsumoto Objective: The purpose of this study was to objectively evaluate prolonged fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring, which has been difficult to do with conventional cardiotocogram (CTG). Methods: FHR was analyzed by an artificial neural network computer...

...Sean C. Blackwell; Anjali Sahai; Sonia S. Hassan; Marjorie C. Treadwell; Mark W. Tomlinson; Theodore B. Jones; Yoram Sorokin Objective: To determine the effects of intrapartum maternal administration of zidovudine on fetal heart rate (FHR) parameters in women infected with the human...

...O. Tadmor; Y. Bocker; R. Rabinowitz; Y. Aboulafia; S. Yagel; M. Stark; Y.Z. Diamant; M. Nitzan Umbilical artery velocity waves were obtained by Doppler ultrasonography before, during, and after 20 episodes of fetal heart rate (FHR) variable decelerations (VD) during the active stage of labor in 8...

...Michael J. Peek; Rekha Bajoria; David Talbert; Nicholas M. Fisk Objective: To determine the effect of maternally administered thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) on fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern and fetal breathing movements (FBM). Methods: Prospective observational study of 75 pregnant women...