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Fetal growth retardation

 

Canada

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Intrauterine growth restriction: screening, diagnosis, and management. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada [2013]

China

• International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
  • Inadequate gestational weight gain and adverse pregnancy outcomes among normal weight women in China [2015]

Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Transcutaneous electrostimulation for suspected placental insufficiency (diagnosed by Doppler studies)
  • Symphysial fundal height (SFH) measurement in pregnancy for detecting abnormal fetal growth
  • Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birthweight babies
  • Regimens of fetal surveillance for impaired fetal growth
  • Plasma volume expansion for suspected impaired fetal growth
  • Planned early delivery versus expectant management of the term suspected compromised baby for improving outcomes
  • 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

Nepal

• Archives of Public Health
  • Role of antenatal care and iron supplementation during pregnancy in preventing low birth weight in Nepal: comparison of national surveys 2006 and 2011 [2014]

Netherlands

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Multidisciplinary consensus on screening for, diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction in the Netherlands [2017]

Nigeria

• Global Health Action
  • Risk factors for low birth weight in Nigeria: evidence from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey [2016]

Sri Lanka

• Ceylon Medical Journal
  • Sri Lankan fetal/ birthweight charts: validation of global reference for fetal weight and birthweight percentiles [2013]

United Kingdom

• BMJ Open
  • Small-for-gestational age and large-for-gestational age thresholds to predict infants at risk of adverse delivery and neonatal outcomes: are current charts adequate? An observational study from the Born in Bradford cohort [2015]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • The investigation and management of the small-for-gestational-age fetus. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2013]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The Investigation and Management of the Small-for-Gestational-Age Fetus [2013]

United States of America

• American College of Radiology
  • Growth Disturbances-Risk of Intrauterine Growth Restriction

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Birthweight

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Fetal growth restriction. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2013]

WHO

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

Articles in journals

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Symphysis-fundus height measurement to predict small-for-gestational-age status at birth: a systematic review [2015]

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  • Premature infants, low birth weight
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