Ultrasonographic diagnosis of fetal hemodynamic parameters in pregnant women with diabetes mellitus in the third trimester of pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE

It was to investigate the diagnosis of fetal hemodynamics in pregnant women with diabetes mellitus in the third trimester of pregnancy by color Doppler ultrasonography.

METHODS

55 women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in the third trimester of pregnancy who were clinically diagnosed and treated in Haian City People's Hospital of Jiangsu Province were selected as the observation group, and 55 pregnant women with normal prenatal examination results were selected as the controls. The hemodynamic parameters of fetal middle cerebral artery (MCA), umbilical artery (UA), and renal artery (RA) were detected, including the ratio of maximum systolic blood flow velocity to end-diastolic blood flow velocity (S/D), resistance index (RI) and arterial pulsation index (PI). Fasting serum levels of maternal patients were collected for detecting Cystain C (Cys C) and homocysteine (Hcy) to analyze the predictive value of serological indexes and target arterial hemodynamics parameters for adverse pregnancy outcome (APO).

RESULTS

The results showed that compared with controls, in the observation group, RI, PI, and S/D of MCA and RA increased significantly, while RI, PI and S/D of UA decreased obviously ( 0.05), the levels of serum Cys C and Hcy were clearly increased ( 0.05). The APO rate of controls and observation group was 10.91 % and 25.45 %, respectively. It was found that the area under the curve of serum Cys C, Hcy, and the APO predicted by the hemodynamic parameters of fetal MCA, UA, and RA were all greater than 0.75 ( 0.05). Multiple Logistic regression analysis showed that serum Cys C and Hcy, and the hemodynamic parameters of fetal MCA, UA and RA were correlated with APO ( < 0.05).

CONCLUSION

In summary, maternal blood glucose level can affect fetal hemodynamic parameters. In the third trimester of pregnancy, the changes of blood flow parameters of fetal MCA, UA, RA, and maternal serum Cys C and Hcy levels are helpful to understand fetal status in utero, and can be used to predict APO.