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Re: 10 week fetal heartrate, Dr?

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:05:04 -0600 (CST)

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At Sat, 22 Mar 2003, anonymous wrote: >
>There is a lot of confusing information on fetal heartrate, including an
>article on this site. I had an ultrasound done, and I am somewhere
>between 10w1d and 10w4days pregnant. The doctor did a quick count of
>the heartrate and came up with 150.
>
>Question 1: How accurate is the count when he just counts for like 6 or
>10 seconds and multiplies it? He only did the count because I asked, not
>because he felt it necessary.
>
>Question 2: He didn't seem overly concerned with this low of a heartrate
>(but he didn't realize until after that that I wasn't the 12 weeks he
>thought I was until he looked at my chart, we didn't measure at this
>ultrasound since I've had a couple), but the articles I've been reading
>seem to say otherwise, is this slow of a heartrate at this point
>generally reason for concern?
>
>Question 3: If this heartrate is of concern, is it more likely of fetal
>demise or of chromosonal abnormalities like Trisomy 18? If the latter,
>how often is the lower heartrate indicative of this?
>
>Thanks!

I don't understand your concern considering a fetal heart rate of 150 beats per minute is completely normal

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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