Background. Acute placental uterine vascular insufficiency is a cause of adverse fetal outcome in fetuses with failure to reach their growth potential and are born at an appropriate weight for gestational age. Clinical case. A 24-year-old patient, 37 weeks gestational age, went to the National Maternal Perinatal Institute of Lima, Peru, for reporting little vaginal bleeding. In the clinical evaluation, a BP of 90/60 mmHg, uterine height 32 cm, fetal heartbeat was found in 152. At ultrasound evaluation, a fetus of 2902 grams (34 Hadlock percentile) was reported 1 hour after admission, a Profile Fetal biophysicist 6/8 due to decreased body movements, 11cm amniotic fluid index, grade III posterior fundic placenta, Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler of the 1.18, umbilical artery Doppler of the 0.56, ductus venosus Doppler 0.26 and Aortic Isthmus with absent diastole. The contraction stress test ...

Background. Acute placental uterine vascular insufficiency is a cause of adverse fetal outcome in fetuses with failure to reach their growth potential and are born at an appropriate weight for gestational age. Clinical case. A 24-year-old patient, 37 weeks gestational age, went to the National Maternal Perinatal Institute of Lima, Peru, for reporting little vaginal bleeding. In the clinical evaluation, a BP of 90/60 mmHg, uterine height 32 cm, fetal heartbeat was found in 152. At ultrasound evaluation, a fetus of 2902 grams (34 Hadlock percentile) was reported 1 hour after admission, a Profile Fetal biophysicist 6/8 due to decreased body movements, 11cm amniotic fluid index, grade III posterior fundic placenta, Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler of the 1.18, umbilical artery Doppler of the 0.56, ductus venosus Doppler 0.26 and Aortic Isthmus with absent diastole. The contraction stress test ...