ArticleThe British journal of radiology2021
Prenatal prediction of respiratory distress syndrome by multimodality approach using 3D lung ultrasound, lung-to-liver intensity ratio tissue histogram and pulmonary artery Doppler assessment of fetal lung maturity.
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- Role of fetal pulmonary artery Doppler parameters for predicting neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2026Review
- Antenatal Fetal Lung Volume for Predicting Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Placenta-pulmonary coupling-guided multimodal AI for fetal lung maturity staging and individualized glucocorticoid therapy.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Predicting neonatal RDS with fetal pulmonary artery doppler: a diagnostic performance and ROC curve analysis.The ultrasound journal · 2025Article
- Evaluating fetal lung development at various gestational weeks using two-dimensional shear wave elastography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Enhancing Fetal Anomaly Detection in Ultrasonography Images: A Review of Machine Learning-Based Approaches.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Role and Clinical Value of Optimized Fetal Main Pulmonary Artery Doppler Parameters in the Diagnosis and Prognosis Monitoring of Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveStudying the correlation of different lung parameters, using three-dimensional ultrasound (3D US) with fetal lung maturity (FLM) to predict the development of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).
methodsThree-dimensional ultrasound was done to record the fetal lung volume (FLV), fetal lung-to-liver intensity ratio (FLLIR) and the main pulmonary artery (MPA) blood flow parameters; pulsatility index (PI), resistive index (RI) and acceleration time-to-ejection time ratio (At/Et), to 218 women between 32 and 40 weeks gestational age within 24 h from labor.
resultsOf 218 fetuses examined, final analysis was done for 143 fetuses. Thirty eight (26.5%) were diagnosed with RDS. The MPA PI and RI were significantly higher in fetuses diagnosed with RDS compared with those without (2.51 ± 0.33 and 0.90 ± 0.03 cm/s versus 1.96 ± 0.20 and 0.84 ± 0.01 cm/s;
conclusionMain pulmonary artery (PI, RI, At/Et ratio), FLIIR, and mean FLV can be used as reliable predictors of neonatal RDS. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: 3D ultrasound VOCAL technique, ultrasound tissue histogram and pulmonary artery Doppler are reliable tools for prenatal prediction of fetal lung maturity.
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