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Frontiers in Pediatrics 卷:9
Fetal Heart Rate Fragmentation
Matilde Costa3  Mariana Xavier3  Teresa S. Henriques4  Inês Nunes5 
[1] Centre for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;
[2] Centro Materno-Infantil do Norte, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal;
[3] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal;
[4] Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences-MEDCIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;
[5] ICBAS School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;
关键词: fetal heart rate;    fragmentation;    symbolic dynamics;    short-term variability;    acidemia;    umbilical cord pH;   
DOI  :  10.3389/fped.2021.662101
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Intrapartum fetal monitoring's primary goal is to avoid adverse perinatal outcomes related to hypoxia/acidosis without increasing unnecessary interventions. Recently, a set of indices were proposed as new biomarkers to analyze heart rate (HR), termed HR fragmentation (HRF). In this work, the HRF indices were applied to intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) traces to evaluate fetal acidemia. The fragmentation method produces four indices: PIP-Percentage of inflection points; IALS-Inverse of the average length of acceleration/deceleration segments; PSS-Percentage of short segments; PAS-Percentage of alternating segments. On the other hand, the symbolic approach studied the existence of different patterns of length four. We applied the measures to 246 selected FHR recordings sampled at 4 and 2 Hz, where 39 presented umbilical artery's pH ≤ 7.15. When applied to the 4 Hz FHR, the PIP, IASL, and PSS showed significantly higher values in the traces from acidemic fetuses. In comparison, the percentage of “words” W1h and W2s showed lower values for those traces. Furthermore, when using the 2 Hz, only IASL, W0, and W2m achieved significant differences between traces from both acidemic and normal fetuses. Notwithstanding, the ideal sampling frequency is yet to be established. The fragmentation indices correlated with Sisporto variability measures, especially short-term variability. Accordingly, the fragmentation indices seem to be able to detect pathological patterns in FHR tracings. These indices have the advantage of being suitable and straightforward to apply in real-time analysis. Future studies should combine these indexes with others used successfully to detect fetal hypoxia, improving the power of discrimination in a larger dataset.

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