Color Doppler Ultrasonography in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy Significantly Reclassifies Fetal Growth Restriction in the Samrakshan Program of IRIA in India

Abstract

This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon.

Samrakshan Program—An Indian Radiological and Imaging Association Initiative to Reduce Perinatal Mortality in India

“…In the next study, the authors describe the role of color Doppler ultrasonography in the third trimester of pregnancy to reclassify FGR. 7 A fetus with FGR shows Doppler signs of hemodynamic redistribution as a fetal adaptation response to undernutrition or hypoxia in addition to an estimated fetal weight less than 10th percentile, whereas a small for gestational age (SGA) fetus is defined as a constitutionally small fetus without Doppler changes. The fetal Doppler parameters studied are the same as in the previous study.…”