Fetal pulmonary artery Doppler blood flow velocity measures and early infant lung function. A prospective cohort study

Reduced lung function at birth has evident antenatal origins and is associated with an increased risk of wheezing and asthma later in life. Little is known about whether blood flow in the fetal pulmonary artery, may impact postnatal lung function. Our primary aim was to investigate the potential ass...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine 2023-12, Vol.36 (1), p.2213796-2213796
Hauptverfasser: Hilde, Katarina, Gudmundsdóttir, Hrefna Katrín, Stensby Bains, Karen Eline, Färdig, Martin, Lødrup Carlsen, Karin C., Jonassen, Christine M., Kreyberg, Ina, Nordlund, Björn, Rehbinder, Eva Maria, Paasche Roland, Marie Cecilie, Skjerven, Håvard O., Staff, Anne Cathrine, Vettukattil, Riyas, Haugen, Guttorm
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Zusammenfassung:Reduced lung function at birth has evident antenatal origins and is associated with an increased risk of wheezing and asthma later in life. Little is known about whether blood flow in the fetal pulmonary artery, may impact postnatal lung function. Our primary aim was to investigate the potential associations between fetal Doppler blood flow velocity measures in the fetal branch pulmonary artery, and infant lung function by tidal flow-volume (TFV) loops at three months of age in a low-risk population. Our secondary aim was to explore the association between Doppler blood flow velocity measures in the umbilical and middle cerebral arteries, and the same lung function measures. In 256 non-selected pregnancies from the birth cohort study Preventing Atopic Dermatitis and ALLergies in Children (PreventADALL) we performed fetal ultrasound examination with Doppler blood flow velocity measurements at 30 gestational weeks (GW). We recorded the pulsatility index, peak systolic velocity, time-averaged maximum velocity, acceleration time/ejection time ratio, and time velocity integral primarily in the proximal pulmonary artery close to the pulmonary bifurcation. The pulsatility index was measured in the umbilical and middle cerebral arteries and the peak systolic velocity in the middle cerebral artery. The cerebro-placental ratio (ratio between pulsatility index in the middle cerebral and umbilical arteries) was calculated. Infant lung function was assessed using TFV loops in awake, calmly breathing three months old infants. The outcome was the time to peak tidal expiratory flow to expiratory time ratio (t PTEF /t E ), t PTEF /t E
ISSN:1476-7058
1476-4954
DOI:10.1080/14767058.2023.2213796