RETROGRADE DUCTUS VENOSUS ATRIO-WAVE AS A SPECIFIC PREDICTOR OF PERINATAL MORTALITY: A CASE REPORT

As fetal compensation against hypoxemia progresses, the afterload on the heart increases,peripheral vascular resistance also increases. eventually, the right heart fails, which is transmitted to thefetal venous system, causing decreased flow during late diastole or atrial contraction and increasedresistance in the ductus venosus and inferior vena cava. the ductus has forward flow during atrialcontraction, the disappearance of which is always pathologic. this is a report of a case of retrogradeductus venosus atrio-wave in a fetus referred with decreased movement for fetal assessment.