Fetal Front-abdominal Wall Thickness and Perinatal Outcome

Kayseri Education and Research Hospital96 enrolled

Overview

Abnormal fetal development such as macrosomia can cause some complications on both fetus and mother.The measurement of fetal anterior abdominal wall thickness (FAWT) is an easy examination that it can be obtained during an examination of a pregnant woman by ultrasound. Macrosomia for fetus can lead to some morbidities. It can affect perinatal outcome and increase childbirth complications and operative birth. There are some studies scrutinizing the relationship between FAWT and diabetes in the literature. However there are few studies which scrutinize effect of FAWT on both abnormal fetal development and adverse perinatal outcomes in non-diabetic pregnancies and non high risk pregnancies. Hence the investigators wonder if FAWT can anticipate birth-weight or macrosomic infant or perinatal outcome regarding with macrosomia in the second trimester.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Fetal Macrosomia Abdominal Wall Mass Perinatal Problems

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 35 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: A total of 96 women with low risk pregnancy coming to our clinic for a routine antenatal examination in 26-28th gestational weeks were included to this study and performed 75 gr- oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Exclusion Criteria: The participants with a positive 75-g OGTT were excluded. Additionally those following criteria were accepted as the exclusion criteria of this study: hypertension, preeclampsia, diabetes, fetal distress, fetal anomaly, multiple pregnancy, preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of membrane, placenta previa, polyhydramnios and intrauterine fetal growth restriction.

Fetal Front-abdominal Wall Thickness and Perinatal Outcome

Overview

Conditions

Eligibility

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes