Prenatal diagnosis of fetal hypoxia based on lipid peroxidation values in exhaled air condensate
Khyshiktueva, N.A.; Khyshiktuev, B.S.
Klinicheskaia Laboratornaia Diagnostika 1: 21-22
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-2084 PMID: 9532894 Document Number: 491610
Lipid peroxidation values were measured in the serum and expired air of pregnant women. The levels of diene conjugates, secondary intermediates of free-radical processes, and malonic dialdehyde were increased in exhaled air condensate of pregnant women who gave birth to babies with grave hypoxia, as against women with healthy babies or babies with slight hypoxia. All the studied values were more demonstrative in the expirate than in the serum. Hence, grave fetal and neonatal hypoxia can be diagnosed before delivery by examining the exhaled air condensate of pregnant women.