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Intrauterine Fetal Growth Retardation

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Advances in Perinatal Medicine

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There has been an awareness throughout the history of civilization that runting may occur in various animal species, particularly those of a polytocous reproductive nature. However, it was only three decades ago that McBurney helped focus attention on the problem of human fetal growth retardation with his manuscript entitled The Undernourished Full—Term Infant. 1 He reported his observations of 69 term infants born with birth weights less than 2500 g, thus introducing the concept of fetal intrauterine growth retardation. However, little attention was paid to aberrations of fetal growth until 1963 when Gruenwald presented his concept of chronic placental insufficiency2 and Lubchenco defined a small—for—date infant [small—for—gestational—age (SGA) infant] as one whose birth weight is below the 10th percentile for a specific gestational age.3 Gruenwald’s and Lubchenco’s reports initiated a surge of interest in intrauterine fetal growth retardation (IUGR), and it quickly became evident that there was an attendant increased morbidity and mortality for the fetus, neonate, and surviving adult. The overall effect of these investigations was to stimulate research in the broader disciplines of fetal growth and development.

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