Citation

Sherer DM, Winkler HA. Am. J. Perinatol. 1997; 14(4): 187-189.

Affiliation

Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-2007-994124

PMID

9259925

Abstract

Transient altered fetal behavior manifested by decreased fetal biophysical score at 37 weeks' gestation following maternal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident, represented an immediate fetal response to fetomaternal hemorrhage occurring during the accident. Although cesarean delivery had initially been considered due to fetal distress (fetal biophysical score of 4 of 10), the fetal biophysical score improved within 2 hr, permitting spontaneous vaginal delivery of a nonasphyxiated fetus, 24 hr after the traumatic event. To our knowledge this is the first report of a transient abnormal fetal biophysical profile in association with a large fetomaternal hemorrhage.

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