Thalis Papapostolou, Despina D Briana, Maria Boutsikou, Christos Iavazzo, Karl-Phillip Puchner, Dimitrios Gourgiotis, Antonios Marmarinos, Ariadne Malamitsi-Puchner
OBJECTIVE: To describe associations among maternal/gestational/neonatal characteristics and midpregnancy amniotic fluid concentrations of the main angiogenic markers vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placental growth factor (PlGF). METHODS: In a cohort of 206 normal full-term pregnancies, midpregnancy amniotic fluid VEGF and PlGF reference values were recorded. Possible associations among the above concentrations and various parameters, such as maternal age and body mass index, race, parity, smoking, gestational age, delivery mode, birth-weight and fetal gender were investigated...
January 2013: Journal of Maternal-fetal & Neonatal Medicine