METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF NEONATAL HYPOGLYCAEMIA IN INFANTS BORN BY WOMEN SUFFERING DIABETES MELLITUS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B8/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: predicting neonatal hypoglycaemia in an infant born by a woman suffering diabetes mellitus in the stages of at least 36 weeks of pregnancy is ensured by foetal ultrasonic scanning. A pancreatic gland (PG) is visualised in a cross-section of the foetal abdomen. Its maximum anterior-posterior dimension is measured at the body level, and if its dimension is more than 1.55 cm, the neonatal hypoglycaemia is predicted. In a particular case, the PG is visualised better if displaying the cross-section of the foetal abdomen at the level of a stomach and an intra-abdominal segment of an umbilical vein is followed by rocking and rotating an ultrasonic probe.

EFFECT: method enables improving the early postnatal adaptation, preventing the postnatal complications, incidence of disease and death caused by the hypoglycaemic conditions in the newborns born by the women suffering diabetes mellitus by correcting them timely due to the accurate prediction of developing neonatal hypoglycaemia starting from the stage of 36^th week of pregnancy.

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