Maternal diabetes mellitus - risk factor for fetus and infant

Ewa Otto-Buczkowska

ISSN: 1231-6407

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Maternal diabetes mellitus - risk factor for fetus and infant

Ewa Otto-Buczkowska

Online publish date: 2003/04/08

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Throughout gestation there is a close relationship between maternal and fetal blood glucose concentrations. There is strong evidence that good glycemic control is essential for an optimal outcome of pregnancy in diabetic women. This includes the prevention or reduction of perinatal and obstetrical complications such as congenital malformations, fetal growth (LGA and SGA) and neonatal morbidity as neonatal hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hyperbilirubinemia, cardiomyopathy or respiratory distress syndrome.

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diabetes mellitus, diabetes complicating pregnancy, planned and unplanned pregnancy, GDM-Gestational diabetes mellitus, intensive insulin treatment, glycaemic control, benefis of intensive care, near normoglycemia, metabolic abnormalities, maternal hypoglycemia, infant of the diabetic mother, congenital malformations, morbidity in infants of diabetic mothers