{"title":"Placenta previa and congenital cardiac anomalies.","authors":"A Neri, Y Manor, A Matityahu, L Blieden","doi":"10.1159/000263435","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was designed to evaluate the association of placenta previa (PP) with cardiac anomalies in the fetus/neonate. The study group (n = 82 babies) was compared to a control group (n = 82) matched for maternal and gestational age. Five babies of the study group expired within 24 h of delivery, and postmortem examination was carried out in 4 of them. The living children of the control and study group (51 of the 77 babies) underwent complete cardiac workup including physical examination, ECG, chest X-ray and echocardiography. The incidence of congenital cardiac anomalies in the study group was significantly higher (Fisher exact test, p = 0.025). The obstetrician should refer the pregnant woman with PP for echocardiographic studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":77713,"journal":{"name":"Fetal therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000263435","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fetal therapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000263435","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study was designed to evaluate the association of placenta previa (PP) with cardiac anomalies in the fetus/neonate. The study group (n = 82 babies) was compared to a control group (n = 82) matched for maternal and gestational age. Five babies of the study group expired within 24 h of delivery, and postmortem examination was carried out in 4 of them. The living children of the control and study group (51 of the 77 babies) underwent complete cardiac workup including physical examination, ECG, chest X-ray and echocardiography. The incidence of congenital cardiac anomalies in the study group was significantly higher (Fisher exact test, p = 0.025). The obstetrician should refer the pregnant woman with PP for echocardiographic studies.