The growth-restricted fetus: risk of mortality by each additional week of expectant management.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare fetal/infant mortality risk associated with each additional week of expectant management with the infant mortality risk of immediate delivery in growth-restricted pregnancies.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted of singleton, nonanomalous pregnancies from the 2005-2008 California Birth Registry comparing pregnancies affected and unaffected by growth restriction, defined using birth weights as a proxy for fetal growth restriction (FGR). Birth weights were subdivided as greater than the 90th percentile, between the 10th percentile and 90th percentile, and less than the 10th percentile. Cases greater than the 90th percentile were excluded from analysis. Cases less than the 10th percentile were considered to have FGR and were further subcatego

SUBMITTER: Pilliod RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033681 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature