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  • Title: [Beta-HCG concentration in maternal serum and in amniotic fluid of patients in labor with physiologic pregnancies].
    Author: Kontoravdis VA, Kassanos D, Souchleri-Foka I, Chryssikopoulos A.
    Journal: Zentralbl Gynakol; 1988; 110(8):494-500. PubMed ID: 2456648.
    Abstract:
    A comparison was made of beta-hCG concentrations in maternal serum (MS) as well as in amniotic fluid (AF) in 30 healthy pregnant women, intra partum in correlation with parity, fetal sex and maternal age. In all cases, the differences in the average values of beta-hCG in MS and in AF were statistically significant. In pregnancies with female fetuses the average values of beta-hCG was higher than the corresponding values of those with male fetuses. Especially in cases of multiparous women, this difference was statistically significant. On the contrary, in AF a reversal of this relationship was observed. The average values of beta-hCG in pregnancies with male newborns were higher than those with female newborns.
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