ARAÚJO FILHO, José de Arimatéia Batista.; SALDANHA, Fatima Aparecida Targino.; ARAÚJO, Raimundo Antonio Batista de.; BEZERRA, Evelyne Morais.; BARRETO, Bruno Antônio Bezerra.
Abstract:
The present work had the purpose of studying the evolution and neonatal results of pregnancies between
40 and 42 weeks, aiming at evaluating the associated factors to perinatal morbidity in such pregnancies,
as well as the importance and effectiveness of propaedeutic methods available for the evaluation of foetal
vitality in such situations. To achieve such ending, 38 pregnant women were selected and split in two
groups (40th and 41st week), whom were submitted to ultrasound exams (evaluation of respiratory and
corporal movements of the foetus, foetal tonus and index of amniotic fluid) and velocity doppler, in
addition to the evaluation of variables related to the neonatal results of such pregnancies (way to
childbirth, presence of meconium, weight of the newborn at birth, days of internation of the newborn,
APGAR, etc.). The study concluded the following results: pregnancies which are prolonged from the 40th
complete week are linked to a rise in the indicators of perinatal morbidity and such risk is similar during
the course of the 40th to the 41st week; the evaluation of the amniotic fluid volume constitutes important
biophysical method for the detection of alterations verified in this group of pacients, whilst the obstetric
velocity doppler showed no great usefulness in the monitoring of such pregnancies.