Fetal complications in later pregnancy

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Chapter 33 Fetal complications in later pregnancy

Intrauterine fetal death (IUFD)

Definition. IUFD is the delivery of a live fetus with no signs of life after 20 weeks. The intrauterine diagnosis is via the absence of fetal heart sounds and fetal movements. Signs of longer duration demise include Spalding’s sign (overlapping skull bones on X-ray) or Robert’s sign (gas in the fetal cardiovascular system). About 50% of all IUFDs occur at over 37 weeks gestation.