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INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION ASSOCIATED WITH HYPOXIA DUE TO BRONCHIECTASIS
Author(s) -
Templeton A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1977.tb12605.x
Subject(s) - growth retardation , bronchiectasis , hypoxia (environmental) , medicine , biology , chemistry , genetics , pregnancy , oxygen , lung , organic chemistry
Summary Two pregnancies in a young patient who had undergone lobectomy for bronchiectasis are described. Both were complicated by intrauterine growth retardation. The only abnormality detected was maternal hypoxaemia, and this was assumed to be causal.