Update on the diagnosis and classification of fetal growth restriction and proposal of a stage-based management protocol

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 86-98

  Figueras, Francesc ^a,b   Gratacós, Eduard ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constitutional small for gestational age; Early severe versus late mild fetal growth restriction; Fetal growth restriction update; Stage based management protocol

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID INDEX; AORTA; AORTIC ISTHMUS DOPPLER; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CEREBROPLACENTAL RATIO; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DUCTUS VENOSUS; DUCTUS VENOSUS DOPPLER; FETAL BIOPHYSICAL PROFILE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MORTALITY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LATE ONSET FETAL GROWTH RESTRICTION; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY DOPPLER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL ARTERY DOPPLER; UTERINE ARTERY; VASODILATATION; AMNIOTIC FLUID INDEX; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; AORTIC ISTHMUS; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FETAL DOPPLER; FETUS CONTROL; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GENERAL PATHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PERINATAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84908356470     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357592     Document Type: Review

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