Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Antenatal and Postnatal Aspects

  • Deepak Sharma
    Department of Neonatology, NEOCLINIC, TN Mishra Marg, Everest Vihar, Nirman Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
  • Sweta Shastri
    Department of Pathology, N.K.P Salve Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
  • Pradeep Sharma
    Department of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

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<jats:p>Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), a condition that occurs due to various reasons, is an important cause of fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. It has been defined as a rate of fetal growth that is less than normal in light of the growth potential of that specific infant. Usually, IUGR and small for gestational age (SGA) are used interchangeably in literature, even though there exist minute differences between them. SGA has been defined as having birth weight less than two standard deviations below the mean or less than the 10th percentile of a population-specific birth weight for specific gestational age. These infants have many acute neonatal problems that include perinatal asphyxia, hypothermia, hypoglycemia, and polycythemia. The likely long-term complications that are prone to develop when IUGR infants grow up includes growth retardation, major and subtle neurodevelopmental handicaps, and developmental origin of health and disease. In this review, we have covered various antenatal and postnatal aspects of IUGR.</jats:p>

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