... vaccination triggers an inflammatory response in the fetus. This study aims at evaluating fetal inflammatory response to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection or SARS-CoV-2 vaccination compared to control group. Design, Participants, Setting, and Methods: A prospective cohort study was performed with a total of 61...

.... Conclusion: Reference ranges of the fetal DA and Z-score model are provided. These may serve as a useful tool in the assessment of fetal DA, especially in fetal cardiac anomalies or in monitoring fetuses exposed to maternal indomethacin. 2 10 2012 12 03 2013 30 4 2013 With cardio...

... with accurate gestational age, and normal fetuses were enrolled into the study. Measurements of DV Doppler indices were determined by experienced sonographers. Poor quality images were excluded. Results: A total of 640 fetuses underwent DV measurements, ranging from 13 to 30 for each gestational week...

... cotyledons dissected from the endometrium as previously described [11]. In twin pregnancies each uterine horn was opened to the cervix and the fetuses left in place, in order to identify the placenta of each fetus. The umbilical cord of one fetus was tied within 2 cm of the anterior abdominal wall and 50-60...

... , but not in poorly perfused fetuses with low QO 2 . Fetal exteriorization can result in inadequate perfusion of fetal tissue, lowering of fetal oxygen consumption and some anaerobic metabolism. Fetus Sheep Oxygen Blood now Exteriorization Lactate Pyruvate Metabolic rate Stress Gynecol, obstet. Invest...

... phytohemagglutinin-induced Phytohemagglutinin and in mixed-lymphocyte reactions. This immu­ Mixed lymphocyte cultures nosuppression is noncytotoxic, and specific as Human serum albumin shown by the contrasting response of lympho­ Fetus cytes to human serum albumin in similar culture Placenta systems. These findings...

... evaluated 2 h, 2, and 4 days postoperatively. Ewes were standing for the procedures at +2 and +4 days, but were lying down at +2 h, probably as a result of residual spinal anesthetic. Fetuses were heparinized (1 ml Na heparin 1:1,000). Prior to each blood flow determination l-ml samples of umbilical...

...K.S. Amankwah; R.C. Kaufmann Previous investigations employing both animal models and human subjects have already documented that maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy has definite deleterious effects upon the developing fetus. In these earlier studies, however, only gross morphological...

... cardiac pump in the fetal circulation, this differentiation does not have to be made. Murata et al. (1971) calculated the PEP of a group of fetuses, without further specification of measurement conditions and gestational age, and found: PEP (mean ± SD) = 71 ± 8 msec. The demonstration of Murata et al...

... and 10.28 ± 0.67 mg%, respectively). Supplemented Group Tables II and III show the results of vitamin D supplementation on the blood chemistry of the pregnant women and their fetuses. Administration of 1,200 IU vitamin D2/day throughout the third trimester produced a statis­ tically significant decrease...

..., preterm to term fetus. There was a significant (p < 0.01) sex difference in the GH level of term fetuses. Anencephalic infants had low GH levels. There was a significant (p < 0.01) negative correlation between the cord GH level and birth weight in the normal infant. These data suggest...

... Africa Key Words. Gestational age Fetus Kidney Fetal kidney Abstract. Fetal renal anatomy was assessed in 660 apparently normal fetuses. The prob­ lems of technique of visualization of the kidneys are outlined. A correlation of fetal kidney length and gestational age is presented. The results...

... Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shimane Medical University, Izumo, Japan Key Words. Ultrasound Fetus Adrenal gland Placenta Estrogen Abstract. Forty-eight ultrasonographic examinations done to assess growth of the fetal adrenal gland and placental aging were performed on 17 normal fetuses...

...Kohkichi Hata; Showa Aoki; Toshiyuki Hata; Fuminori Murao; Manabu Kitao Ultrasonographic studies of the human fetal gallbladder were performed in utero on 149 fetuses ranging from 20 to 39 weeks of gestation. The gallbladder could be identified in 37.5% (20–23 weeks) to 64.7% (24–27 weeks) after 20...

... follow. First, the signif­ icantly different densitometry-derived echogenicity of the reference structures validates the distinct echogenicity of the proposed four internal standards namely fluid, liver, lung and bone seen in fetuses between 16 and 20 weeks gestation. Furthermore, fetal bowel...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Fetus Immunoglobulin Rubella Case Reports Gynecol Obstet Invest 1990;30:184-185 0 1990 S. Karger AG, Basel 0378-7346...

... to patients experiencing preterm delivery. However, the results obtained agreed well with those reported previously [8]. Forty-four percent of respiratory problems recognized neonatally in the fetuses with type A breathing consisted of severe RDS in this study. In contrast, no fetus showing type C breathing...

... fetuses becomes more than 95% after the 32nd week, which is also the frequency found at full term. The pres­ ence of a close correlation between the acceleration/body movement ratio and the percent of fetal breathing move­ ments lasting for 30 s or more in this study suggests that there is a turning point...

... > 2.0 and the presence of PG. Lower values were defined as negative (immature). The statistical analysis was performed using the x2 test. A value of p < 0.05 was used as the level of significance. Results The distribution of the samples associated with RDS plus specimens from fetuses who did not have...

..., by measuring the biparietal diameter [8] and fetal femur length [9]. All the fetuses were delivered vaginally and birth weights were in the normal range (be­ tween the 10th and 90th percentile) of the standard intrauterine growth curve for Japanese [10], All these pregnancies resulted in the birth of normal...