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Fetal heart rate in maternal hypoglycemic coma
Author(s) -
Confino Edmond,
Ismajovich Bernardo,
David Menachem P.,
Gleicher Norbert
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(85)90013-x
Subject(s) - medicine , fetal heart rate , coma (optics) , fetus , diabetes mellitus , heart rate , fetal heart , obstetrics , cardiology , pregnancy , endocrinology , blood pressure , physics , biology , optics , genetics
In pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is widely utilized to detect early fetal compromise. Never, however, was the fetal heart rate monitored during a maternal hypoglycemic coma. Such a case is here presented.