Assessing vascular characteristics of the fetal descending aorta: A feasibility study.
Evanoff Nicholas G, Dengel Donald R, Narasimhan Shanti·Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU
Research describing fetal arterial structure and function is lacking within the literature. This study's purpose was to measure intima-media thickness (IMT), compliance and distensibility of 24- to 25-week fetuses' abdominal aortas using conventional ultrasonography from 16 diabetic (DM) and 25 non-diabetic mothers (ND…