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The Effect of Maternal Cardiac Disease and Digoxin Administration on Labour, Fetal Weight and Maturity at Birth
Author(s) -
Ho P. C.,
Chen T. Y.,
Wong Vivian
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1980.tb00890.x
Subject(s) - digoxin , medicine , apgar score , percentile , birth weight , pregnancy , gestational age , disease , heart disease , obstetrics , fetus , heart failure , statistics , mathematics , biology , genetics
Summary: One hundred and twenty‐two patients with cardiac disease were compared with 250 controls with respect to the duration of pregnancy and labour, birth weight percentile and Apgar score. The babies of the patients with cardiac disease were light‐for‐dates (18% below the 10th percentile); the mothers, if multiparous, delivered at an earlier gestational age. The patients with cardiac disease did not have shorter labours than the control group. Digoxin administration and the severity of heart disease had no significant effect on these variables.