Table 2.
Cardiac Parameters | Not pregnant (n=6) | P* | Embryonic Day 7 (n=6) | Embryonic Day 13 (n=6) | Embryonic Day 18 (n=6) | P** |
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Fetal Heart Rate (beats/min) | 146.5 (105.0–171.0) | 193.0 (127.0–216.0) | 0.001 | |||
Umbilical Artery | ||||||
Resistive index | 0.9 (0.9–10) | 0.9 (0.9–0.9) | 0.25 | |||
Peak systolic velocity (mm/s) | 52.4 (23.8–77.8) | 84.3 (65.4–132.0) | <0.001 | |||
End diastolic velocity (mm/s) | 4.8 (2.1–7.3) | 7.0 (3.2–10.9) | 0.015 | |||
Systolic/diastolic ratio | 11.9 (7.6–23.0) | 14.8 (8.9–18.4) | 0.33 | |||
Uterine Artery | ||||||
Resistive index | 0.7 (0.7–0.9) | 0.59 | 0.7 (0.6–0.7) | 0.5 (0.4–0.7) | 0.6 (0.6–0.7) | 0.11 |
Peak systolic velocity (mm/s) | 147.0 (23.4–280.4) | 0.94 | 110.5 (72.2–239.2) | 105.7 (43.7–318.4) | 152.3 (87.4–209.1) | 0.51 |
End diastolic velocity (mm/s) | 26.3 (7.7–92.6) | 0.31 | 34.8 (28.2–64.6) | 51.4 (14.9–175.8) | 56.4 (30.9–73.6) | 0.51 |
Velocity Time Interval (mm) | 22.9 (2.7–31.4) | 0.82 | 15.5 (11.7–26.3) | 13.5 (5.9–39.0) | 16.0 (9.6–22.5) | 0.31 |
Pulsatility index | 1.1 (1.1–1.8) | 0.39 | 1.2 (0.9–1.5) | 0.7 (0.5–1.2) | 1.1 (0.9–1.2) | 0.11 |
Systolic/diastolic ratio | 3.2 (2.9–10.0) | 0.33 | 3.1 (2.3–3.6) | 2.0 (1.6–3.4) | 2.8 (2.5–3.3) | 0.11 |
Placental volume (mm3) | 92.8 (65.1–114.2) | 166.8 (132.7–244.1) | 0.03 |
Data are presented as median (10th–90th percentiles)
Exact Wilcoxon test
Friedman test for embryonic days 7, 13 and 18; Wilcoxon signed rank for embryonic days 13 and 18.