Abstract

INFLUENCE OF AMNIOTIC FLUID INDEX & PLACENTAL GRADING ON PERINATAL OUTCOME

Dr. Sanjivani Wanjari and *Dr. Priyanka Kumari

Abstract

Modern obstetrics is concerned with the health and well being of both mother and unborn child. Recognition of a foetus at risk for death or damage in utero, quantifying the risk, balancing the foetal risk against the risk of neonatal complications from immaturity and determining the optimal time and mode of interventions are the cornerstones of modern perinatal medicine.[1] Alterations in amniotic fluid volume, especially decreased amniotic fluid volume (olighohydraminios) have classically been considered as an indicator of poor perinatal outcome.[2,3] The semiquantitative method of calculating an amniotic fluid index (AFI) by using ultrasound to measure the sum of the deepest pockets of amniotic fluid in the 4 quardants of the maternal abdomen is the most common method of quantifying amniotic fluid volume.[2,3]

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