Why the study?
Does sonographic fetal asymmetry correlate with the incidence and severity of shoulder dystocia in diabetic patients?
Population
123 women with gestational and pregestational diabetes who delivered at University of California, Irvine…
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Fetal asymmetry may aid risk stratification in diabetic pregnancies; leaves open whether sonographic measures should guide delivery planning pending prospective validation.
Does sonographic fetal asymmetry correlate with the incidence and severity of shoulder dystocia in diabetic patients?
In diabetic patients, the level of fetal truncal asymmetry measured sonographically directly correlates with the incidence and severity of shoulder dystocia.
Cohen et al. (1999) studied this question.
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