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Original Article Mak Med Pregled 2016; 70(2): 153-157 DOI: 10.1515/mmr-2016-0029 MMP Original article NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL DETERMINATION OF FETAL MATURITY Elena Dzikova1, Goran Dimitrov1 and Olivera Stojceva-Taneva2 1University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2University Clinic of Nephrology, Medical Faculty, University Ss. “Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Abstract lack of surfactant causes increased surface tension of the alveoli. That process reduces the possibility of Aims. The prenatal prediction of fetal maturity is very their expansion thus preventing the establishment of important, since neonatal respiratory distress syndrome the process of breathing, described as a major etiological (RDS) is one of the biggest causes of neonatal mortality. factor for hyaline membrane disease in the study of Our aim was to investigate a new non-invasive method Avery and Mead by 1959. [1]; Mahaffey et al. in 1959. for prediction of fetal maturity and to determine in which [2]; Adams et al. 1967. [3]; Northway et al. 1967. [4]. group according to gestational age of the fetus, the treat- In the process of maturation, fetal lungs are the most ment works the best and in which cases it is necessary important organ for survival in extra uterine environ- to be repeated. ment. Therefore, it is very important to predict the fe- Methods. We examined 60 patients (30 with impending tal maturity prenatally, in order to provide adequate preterm delivery, divided in 3 groups: 28-30, 30-32, and 32- treatment to improve fetal maturity, and thus postpar- 34 gestational weeks and 30 controls), at the University tum adaptation of the fetus, as well as to reduce morbi- Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical Faculty, Uni- dity and mortality in the newborn. One of the oldest versity “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, R. Macedonia. techniques and still one of the gold standards for deter- Fetal maturity was examined using ultrasound histogram mining fetal maturity is the ratio between lecithin and from fetal lungs and liver, correlated with gestational age sphingomyelin (L/S) in the amniotic fluid; these two and postpartum RDS. Where possible, we performed am- being predictors of generated surfactant, necessary for niocentesis for lamellar body count (LBC) to correlate the process of respiration. L/S should be greater than our results with the current invasive method for predic- 1.5, preferably 2, or more, to achieve full fetal lung and tion of fetal maturity. fetal maturity in general. This technique was mentioned Results. Pre-therapy investigation showed a strong fetal for the first time in the study of Gluck et al. 1971 [5] and immaturity in 28-32 weeks of gestation and less evident Whitfield et al. 1972 [6]. fetal immaturity in 32-34 weeks of gestation. Seventy- Later, a simple method with high sensitivity and specifi- two hours post-treatment, fetal maturation was low in the city was described, which counted the lamellar bodies first group, higher in the second and the highest in the in the amniotic fluid (LBC). For the first time in the lite- third group. Amniocentesis for LBC showed correlation rature this method was described by Dubin SB in 1989 with the ultrasound results. Postpartum results were co- [7], Bowie et al. in 1991 [8] and Ashwood et al. in 1993 rrelated with pre-delivery ultrasound and showed signi- [9]. This method almost completely replaced the method ficance of p <0.05. of determining the L/S ratio in the amniotic fluid. Conclusion. The results obtained in our study were with Today there are several attempts to find the most high significance, and they were in correlation with other adequate non-invasive method for prenatal prediction similar studies. However, more extensive investigations of fetal maturity. One of them is the method of detecting should be made to replace the current invasive technique. fetal maturity by determining the ratio between the density in fetal lungs and fetal liver using MRI. This Keywords: prenatal non-invasive method, ultrasound, method gives good results, but is too expensive to be histogram, fetal maturity, respiratory distress syndrome introduced into the routine practice. ___________________________________________ Aims Introduction To examine a new method, which will provide timely Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is one of the bi- prediction of fetal maturity and timely treatment; and ggest causes of fetal mortality. In immature newborn, the that would be non-invasive, inexpensive, accessible, sim- ple, repeatable, sensitive, specific, and can be performed ________________________ routinely in any hospital facility available good ultra- Correspondence to: Dzikova Elena, Bul. Ilinden No.59, 1000 Skopje, R. Macedonia; Phpone: +389 70 58 52 22; E-mail: [email protected] sound device and educated staff. 154 Assess fetal maturity To determine in which group of patients according to and 72 hours after administration of the therapy, Amp. gestational age of the fetus, the treatment works the best Betamethasone a 14 mg / II dose / 24h, a protocol for and in which cases it is necessary to be repeated for asse- fetal lung maturation. The results were followed up to ssing a good fetal maturity, and thus to reduce fetal mor- 72 hours after the last dose of Betamethasone, and then if tality and morbidity, which are among the main object- the patient was delivered, they were compared with the tives of the action Plan of the World Health Organi- extent of postpartum respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). zation from 2012 [10] and Healthy people 2020 [11]. If the patient was not delivered within 72 hours of measu- rement, she was excluded from the study. Material and methods Statistical analyses were done using standard statistical procedures for data processing, mean, standard deviation, The study was designed as a prospective obser- correlation, analysis of variance, Student’s t-test for paired vational-interventional clinical study. It included 60 analysis and determination of p value for statistical signi- patients, of whom 30 were impending preterm delive- ficance. Statistical significance was defined as a p value ries, and 30 control patients from the University Clinic <0.05. The correlation was made using Spearman's Rho for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical Faculty, Uni- Calculation test. For testing the diagnostic accuracy of versity Ss. “Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Republic our method we measured sensitivity, specificity, positive of Macedonia. Patients with premature ruptured mem- predictive value, negative predictive value, positive and branes (PPROM), pain and expected early preterm negative likelihood ratio. birth (PPI), or with an expected early caesarean section (PSC) were included in the study. Exclusion criteria Results were: abnormalities of the fetus, multiple pregnancy, and the presence of a disease in the mother. Of the 60 patients analyzed so far, 30 were the examined The protocol for the research project was approved by cases and 30 control ones. Control patients were over 39 the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, Univer- weeks of gestation, with expected full maturity of the sity Ss. “Cyril and Methodius”, and the protocol con- fetal lungs. Of the examined 30 patients, 16 were with formed to the codes of the Declaration of Helsinki premature ruptured membranes (PPROM) and 14 were (Ethics Board approval number 03-5515/5). expecting prematurity (PPI). Ten of them were within The ultrasound machine Voluson expert E8 and semi- 28-30 gestational weeks (g.w.); 14 were in 30-32 weeks convex ultrasound probe of 3.5 MHz, trans- of gestation and 6 were in 32-34 weeks of gestation. abdominally were used. Histogram examined the The ultrasound measurement protocol made before the- density of the fetal lungs in patients selected according rapy for fetal lung maturation showed a strong fetal to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and compared to immaturity in the first two groups (28-32 weeks of ges- the degree of postpartum respiratory distress syndrome tation). In the first group from 28-30 weeks of pregnan- (RDS), (Figure 1). cy, the average ultrasound histogram signal intensity was 1.89±0.25; and in the second group from 30-32 weeks of pregnancy the average ultrasound histogram signal intensity was 1.43±0.05. The third group from 32-34 weeks of pregnancy showed less obvious fetal immaturity with an average histogram intensity ultrasound signal of 1.23±0.03. Seventy-two hours after the administered therapy we repeated the measurements, which showed a low fetal maturation in the first group, with a mean histogram intensity ultrasound signal of 1.62±0.14; inter- mediate in the second, with an average histogram inten- sity ultrasound signal of 1.35; SD=0.05; and most signi- ficant in the third group, with an average histogram in- tensity ultrasound signal of 1.11±0.02. After completion of therapy in those patients where there was an oppor- tunity to perform the amniocentesis test for LBC, it showed a strong negative correlation (R=-1 in the first Fig. 1. Ultrasound histogram of fetal lungs and liver group; R=-0.99 in the second group and R=-0.87 in the third group). The results of the ultrasound were with If there was an opportunity to investigate LBC in the significance of p<0.05 in all three groups of patients. amniotic fluid, then amniocentesis was performed as a Postpartum results correlated with the results of pre- standard procedure. The examination was made before delivery ultrasound, with a strong positive correlation 155 Dzikova E. et al. Table 1. Results for postpartum RDS, LBC and DZ before and after Th Postpartum LBC DZ (М± SD) G.A. RDS M±SD M±SD Before Th. After Th. 28-30 g.a. 2.6±0.55 18.8±5.17 1.89±0.25 1.62±0.14 30-32 g.a.
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