INTRAUTERINE FETAL GROWTH

Abstract

Between January and December 1981 he served in the Department of Premature National Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins 184 newborns with growth retardation (weight below the 10th percentile for gestational age). The incidence was 1.22 percent. In reviewing the histories of 156 mothers, age was evenly distributed across all age groups, although there was a 16 percent of women over 35 years. About half of the mothers were primiparous. They highlighted the history of abortions; Caesarean sections and urinary tract infection. In more than a third of the cases, the mother had hypertension during pregnancy and anemia, urinary tract infection similar group and 12 percent premature rupture of membranes. Fetal distress occurred in 15 percent of cases. The delivery was eutácico in only half the cases, and the incidence of Caesareans 38 percent. The newborn presented hypoxia by 16 percent, 13 percent jaundice, congenital abnormalities and neonatal infection in 7 and 5 percent, respectively, and hypoglycemia by 2 percent. The perinatal mortality rate was 0.9 percent in May. The results are discussed, the literature is reviewed and some guidelines intrauterine diagnosis and management is given.