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Fetal lung maturity indices-a plea for gestational age-specific interpretation: a case report and discussion
Michael G Pinette1, Jacquelyn Blackstone, Joseph R Wax
1Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, USA. cartia@mmc.org
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|December 26, 2002
Abstract:
A fetus with mature amniotic fluid lung indices was delivered with subsequent respiratory distress syndrome, demonstrating that fetal pulmonary maturity needs to be viewed as a probability. We calculated the probability of respiratory distress as a function of gestational age and fetal lung maturity. The percent risks are displayed in an easily readable table format.