A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique, ...

Preeclampsia is a leading cause of intrauterine growth restriction and preterm birth. Endothelial dysfunction is the common final pathway leading to clinical signs of preeclampsia including ...

Persistent Fetal Circulation. Rostal-caudal MRA projection. A number of individuals have a normal anatomic variant known as a persistent fetal circulation, where the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) ...

1 National Center for Fetal Medicine, Trondheim University Hospital (St Olav's Hospital), Trondheim, Norway 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Norwegian University of ...

The court, quoting from one of the patents, noted that: The major proportion (generally >90%) of the extracellular DNA in material circulation is derived from the mother. This vast bulk of maternal ...