Abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine whether cerebral lactate as measured on fetal MR spectroscopy (MRS) is predictive of cesarean delivery (CD) during labor in pregnancies complicated by complex congenital heart disease (CHD). STUDY DESIGN: We performed an exploratory secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of term women with singleton gestations who had fetuses with CHD that would require neonatal open-heart surgery. All patients underwent fetal MRI with spectroscopy (MRS) and cerebral lactate was quantified usin… Show more
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