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Fetal Echocardiography and Pulsed-wave Doppler Ultrasound in a Rabbit Model of Intrauterine Growth Restriction
Published on: June 29, 2013
[Adaptations and constraints : obstetrical complications in the light of phylogenesis]
Xavier Capelle1, Alix Doupagne1, Christine Van Linthout1
1(1) Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Abstract:
Among mammals, our species is the one whose females pay the heaviest price during parturition. Maternal morbidity and mortality remain a major global public health issue.Recent advances in paleoanthropology and evolutionary biology have shed new light on the complexity and dangerousness of childbirth in modern humans, compared with the great apes. This evolutionary conception invites us to understand and represent obstetrical pathology differently.
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