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Fetal growth retardation

Australia

• Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
  • Small for Gestational Age Fetus [2010]
  • Intrauterine growth restriction [2010]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Transcutaneous electrostimulation for suspected placental insufficiency (diagnosed by Doppler studies)
  • Regimens of fetal surveillance for impaired fetal growth
  • Plasma volume expansion for suspected impaired fetal growth
  • Maternal oxygen administration for suspected impaired fetal growth
  • Maternal nutrient supplementation for suspected impaired fetal growth
  • Hormones for suspected impaired fetal growth
  • Customised versus population-based growth charts as a screening tool for detecting small for gestational age infants in low-risk pregnant women
  • Calcium channel blockers for potential impaired fetal growth
  • Betamimetics for suspected impaired fetal growth
  • Bed rest in hospital for suspected impaired fetal growth

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Management of the Child Born Small for Gestational Age through to Adulthood: A Consensus Statement of the International Societies of Pediatric Endocrinology and the Growth Hormone Research Society [2007]

• Pediatrics
  • International Small for Gestational Age Advisory Board Consensus Development Conference Statement: Management of Short Children Born Small for Gestational Age [2003]

Latin America

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Latin American Consensus: Children Born Small for Gestational Age [2011]

United Kingdom

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Delivery of IUGR fetus - query bank [2009]
  • The Investigation and Management of the Small-for-Gestational-Age Fetus [2002]

United States of America

• American College of Radiology
  • Growth Disturbances-Risk of Intrauterine Growth Restriction [2012]

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Birthweight

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® growth disturbances—risk of intrauterine growth restriction [2010]

WHO

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • How effective are smoking cessation and nutritional interventions in preventing low birth weight? [2005]

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low-birth-weight babies [2003]

• World Health Organization
  • Low birthweighth - Country, regional and global estimates [2004]

Articles in journals

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Maternal homocysteine and small-for-gestational-age offspring: systematic review and meta-analysis [2012]

• Annals of African Medicine
  • Doppler ultrasound in the assessment of suspected intra-uterine growth restriction [2011]

• Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia
  • Metabolic syndrome in children born small-for-gestational age [2011]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Intrauterine growth restriction - diagnosis and management [2005]

• Biology of Reproduction
  • Endovascular Trophoblast Invasion: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Preeclampsia [2003]

• BMC Public Health
  • Screening and triage of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) in general population and high risk pregnancies: a systematic review with a focus on reduction of IUGR related stillbirths [2011]

• Clinical & Experimental Allergy
  • Fetal growth and risk of childhood asthma and allergic disease [2012]

• Clinical Chemistry
  • Homocysteine and the Risk of Intrauterine Growth Retardation [2003]

• Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Fetal Programming of Adult Kidney Disease: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms [2007]

• Endocrine Reviews
  • Small for Gestational Age: Short Stature and Beyond [2007]
  • Endocrine Regulation of Human Fetal Growth: The Role of the Mother, Placenta, and Fetus [2006]

• European Journal of Endocrinology
  • Intrauterine growth restriction and adult disease: the role of adipocytokines [2009]
  • Metabolic implications of GH treatment in small for gestational age [2007]

• European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Fetal and infant origins of asthma [2012]

• Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
  • Should We Customize Fetal Growth Standards? [2009]

• Frontiers in Bioscience
  • Maternal amino acid supplementation for intrauterine growth restriction [2011]

• Hormone Research in Paediatrics
  • Brain Development, Intelligence and Cognitive Outcome in Children Born Small for Gestational Age [2010]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Perinatal energy metabolism with reference to IUGR & SGA: studies in pregnant women & newborn infants [2009]
  • Maternal nutrition & low birth weight - what is really important? [2009]

• Journal of Endocrinology
  • The intergenerational effects of fetal programming: non-genomic mechanisms for the inheritance of low birth weight and cardiovascular risk [2004]

• Journal of Nutrition
  • Moderate to Severe, but Not Mild, Maternal Anemia Is Associated with Increased Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age Outcomes [2012]

• Journal of Physiology
  • Intrauterine growth restriction, human placental development and trophoblast cell death [2009]
  • Recent observations on the regulation of fetal metabolism by glucose [2006]
  • Programming placental nutrient transport capacity [2006]
  • Placental adaptive responses and fetal programming [2006]
  • Fetal programming of autonomic and HPA function: do people who were small babies have enhanced stress responses? [2006]
  • Evidence for altered placental blood flow and vascularity in compromised pregnancies [2006]

• Pediatrics
  • Impact of Growth Hormone Therapy on Adult Height of Children Born Small for Gestational Age [2009]
  • Persistent Short Stature, Other Potential Outcomes, and the Effect of Growth Hormone Treatment in Children Who Are Born Small for Gestational Age [2003]

• Reproduction
  • Endocrine mechanisms of intrauterine programming [2004]

• Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
  • The Intrauterine Growth Restriction Phenotype: Fetal Adaptations and Potential Implications for Later Life Insulin Resistance and Diabetes [2011]

• Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Neurodevelopment following fetal growth restriction and its relationship with antepartum parameters of placental dysfunction [2011]

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