ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2021
Umbilical cord lactate compared with pH as predictors of intrapartum asphyxia.
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- Lactate, an Essential Metabolic Marker in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Conditions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Correlation of Arterial Lactate and pH With the Immediate Outcome of Term Asphyxiated Neonates.Cureus · 2025Article
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- Fetal Wellbeing Monitoring: A Review Article.Cureus · 2022Review
- The Correlation of Cord Arterial Blood Gas Analysis Results and Apgar Scores in Term Infants Without Fetal Distress.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2022Article
- The Management of Pregnancy Complicated with the Previable Preterm and Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes: What about a Limit of Neonatal Viability?-A Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Forensic Analysis of Umbilical and Newborn Blood Gas Values for Infants at Risk of Cerebral Palsy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite advances in fetal monitoring during labor, one of the most critical causes of neonatal death and neurologic injuries remains intrapartum asphyxia. Umbilical cord gases can be used to detect acidosis and fetal distress. We conducted a retrospective, multicenter study to evaluate umbilical cord blood pH and lactate as a mean of evaluating the degree of intrapartum hypoxia and also to establish which of the two is more reliable in predicting morbidity in term neonates. The present study utilized a total of 124 cases that met the criteria for intrapartum asphyxia and 150 normal term newborns that were randomly selected as case control. Both umbilical cord lactate and pH proved to be accurate predictors of neonatal morbidity caused by intrapartum hypoxia. Lactate proved to be superior to pH in predicting adverse neonatal outcome. The greatest sensibility and specificity in predicting intrapartum asphyxia were achieved in our study by using a cutoff value of 3.75 mmol/l for lactate and 7.24 for pH.
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