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Murine Fetal Echocardiography
Published on: February 15, 2013
[Smoking and pregnancy: search for a correlation between cotininemia and Doppler findings]
A Lymperopoulou1, F Hainaut, P Crimail
1Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Montreuil.
Objective:
To search for a possible correlation between an effective marker of smoking and uterine and placental resistance during pregnancy.
Study Design:
A prospective study was conducted at the Intercommunal Hospital Center of Montreuil, France: 81 healthy pregnant women underwent uterine and placental Doppler and cotidin blood assay, the best current test for smoking.
Results:
This study shows a significative increase of utero-placental vascular resistances according with increased cotidine levels.
Conclusions:
The previously observed association between smoking and perinatal events most likely involves vascular resistance of uterus and placenta.
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