[Status of the cardiovascular system of the fetus and newborn infant in different degree of severity of maternal hypertensive syndrome].

Examinations of 260 pregnant women with hypertensive syndromes and their 60 full-term newborns, carried out with the use of echography of the umbilical artery, umbilical vein, aorta, and internal carotid artery of the fetus have demonstrated a high informative value of these methods for the assessment of the type of fetal condition and prediction of the newborn's adaptive mechanisms of the cardiovascular system. Significant changes of the cardiovascular system were revealed in small-for-date fetuses and in chronic fetal hypoxia, as well as functional changes in the newborns of the mothers with the hypertensive syndrome, with born signs of intrauterine suffering. These changes should be borne in mind when predicting the development of infants born of mothers with the hypertensive syndrome.

[Analysis of erroneous prediction of fetal weight based on prenatal ultrasonography].

The study was undertaken to examine 105 cases showing great discrepancies++ between the true fetal mass and that estimated from echographic evidence. Main reasons for high inaccuracies were outlined in predicting fetal mass and possible ways of reducing the frequency of mistakes in estimating fetal mass from prenatal ultrasonographic findings were proposed.