The relationship of maternal erythrocyte oxygen transport parameters to intrauterine growth retardation

EG Brown, GJB Mendoza, FA Chervenak… - American journal of …, 1990 - Elsevier
The relation of fetal growth and maternal oxygen transport as assessed by red blood cell 2, 3-
diphosphoglycerate, hemoglobin oxygen affinity, hemoglobin, pH, and PCO 2 was
evaluated in 21 pregnant women. The study was performed in the third trimester and each
subject evaluated had sonographic evidence of fetal growth retardation without other
obvious abnormalities. Decreased maternal 2, 3-diphosphoglycerate/hemoglobin molar
ratio and hemoglobin oxygen affinity were related linearly to the birth weight normalized for …