evaluation of the relationship between short femur length and preeclampsia

Background & objective: preeclampsia is a perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality-related pregnancy disease. a diagnostic challenge is frequently presented by the finding of a small femur length, especially below the fifth percentile. when the ultrasound was performed, it can be related to fetal growth restriction. this study sought to determine how short femur diaphysis length (fdl) during 32–37 weeks of gestation affected preeclampsia. materials & methods: between february 2021 and february 2022, pregnant women who received a regular abnormality scan at the shahid motahari university hospital in urmia, iran, between 32 and 37 weeks of gestation were included in the study. as part of the abnormality scan, fetal biometry and uterine artery doppler ultrasound were evaluated, and the mean pulsatility index of the two uterine arteries was noted. from our database system, we gathered information on maternal obstetric features such as ethnicity, age, weight, parity, smoking, and medical history including hypertension and diabetes mellitus.results: the present study's findings showed that preeclampsia, maternal age, and the number of prior pregnancies were all connected with multivariate analysis of the fetal femoral length percentile. additionally, the 50th percentile femoral's sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of preeclampsia were 96.88 and 81.88, respectively. conclusion: according to our findings, there is a substantial association between pe and short flduring 32–37 weeks of gestation.