Fetal echocardiographic parameters in pregnancies complicated by diabetes: a case control study

• Main Authors: Amal Darwish (Author), Maged Abdel-Raouf (Author), Rasha Kamel (Author), Emad Salah (Author), Mai Salah (Author), Ahmed Okasha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background At present, the prevalence of pregestational diabetes is 2.2% with an overall prevalence of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy of about 16.2%. Fetuses of diabetic mothers are at risk of functional cardiac abnormalities without structural cardiac anomalies especially in the third trimest...