Doppler ultrasonography of the human fetal pulmonary circulation.
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J.A.M. Laudy', M.A.J. de Ridder', J. W. Wladimiroff' Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Rotterdam, Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatisticsl, Erasmus UniverSity Medical School, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Published in: Pediatric Research 1.997;41:897-901 The objective of the present study was to determine the characteristics of Doppler flow velocity waveforms in branch pulmonary arteries in relation to gestational age. A total of 111 singleton normal pregnancies were studied during the second half of pregnancy using a combined color-coded Doppler and two-dimensional real-time ultrasound system. Pulsed Doppler measurements of the most proximal branch of the right or left pulmonary artery were attempted during fetal apnea from a transverse cross-section of the fetal chest at the level of the cardiac four-chamber view after visualization with color Doppler. The success rate in obtaining the pulmonary arterial waveform was 85%. The waveform displayed a rapid systolic velocity acceleration, followed by an initially rapid but then more gradual velocity deceleration which was interrupted in most cases by a short reversed flow interval at the beginning of the diastolic phase of the cardiac cycle. The diastolic phase was characterized by forward flow. Peak systolic, end-diastolic and time-averaged velocity, pulsatility index and systolic integral remained constant during gestation. Changes in vessel diameter or compliance may play a role in this. A gestational agedependent rise was established for peak diastolic veloCity, diastolic integral and early peak diastolic reverse flow, whereas a gestational age-determined
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology
دوره 99 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001