Seventy-one pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes and 100 healthy pregnancies were monitored on two occasions (between 27th-32nd and 33rd-36th week of gestation) by behavioural state analysis (1F coincidence; 2F coincidence) and umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry (UA) (Resistance Index, RI). The purpose of our study was to determine if the development of behavioural states and Doppler velocimetry: (1) differ between normal and gestational diabetic cases; (2) in gestational diabetic cases, are they related to the degree of abnormality of the maternal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)?; and (3) are they predictors of perinatal outcome? (i.e. emergency caesarean section; low Apgar scores; respiratory distress syndrome; neonatal hypoglycaemia and neurological abnormality in the neonate and/or at 4 months of age). Our findings suggest that: (1) results on behavioral state development and Doppler velocimetry were significantly different in gestational diabetic cases; (2) infants of women with gestational diabetes who are neurologically abnormal during the newborn period, had a poor development of coincidence 2F during fetal life and had neonatal hypoglycaemia more often than infants with a normal neurological outcome; (3) in cases with abnormal neurological outcome, the maternal diabetes was more severe than in those cases with normal outcome.

Doppler velocimetry and behavioural state development in relation to perinatal outcome in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes

Gazzolo, D
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1995-01-01

Abstract

Seventy-one pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes and 100 healthy pregnancies were monitored on two occasions (between 27th-32nd and 33rd-36th week of gestation) by behavioural state analysis (1F coincidence; 2F coincidence) and umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry (UA) (Resistance Index, RI). The purpose of our study was to determine if the development of behavioural states and Doppler velocimetry: (1) differ between normal and gestational diabetic cases; (2) in gestational diabetic cases, are they related to the degree of abnormality of the maternal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)?; and (3) are they predictors of perinatal outcome? (i.e. emergency caesarean section; low Apgar scores; respiratory distress syndrome; neonatal hypoglycaemia and neurological abnormality in the neonate and/or at 4 months of age). Our findings suggest that: (1) results on behavioral state development and Doppler velocimetry were significantly different in gestational diabetic cases; (2) infants of women with gestational diabetes who are neurologically abnormal during the newborn period, had a poor development of coincidence 2F during fetal life and had neonatal hypoglycaemia more often than infants with a normal neurological outcome; (3) in cases with abnormal neurological outcome, the maternal diabetes was more severe than in those cases with normal outcome.
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