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Table 2 Oxygen consumption, oxygen delivery and oxygen extraction fraction, fetal weight Z score, fetal brain weight Z score and lung volume in normal and Ebstein's anomaly fetuses.

From: Combined ventricular output and oxygen delivery are reduced while oxygen extraction fraction is increased in fetuses with Ebstein's Anomaly by MRI

 

VO2 (ml/min/kg)

DO2 (ml/min/kg)

OEF

Fetal weight Z score

Brain weight Z score

Lung volume

Normal

7.0 ± 1.9

20.1 ± 5.1

0.35 ± 0.07

0.2 ± 0.6

0.1 ± 0.9

64 ± 24

Ebstein

6.3 ± 1.3

13.4 ± 2.5

0.47 ± 0.09

-0.3 ± 0.5

-1.3 ± 0.7

55 ± 17

P value

0.3

0.008*

0.01*

0.03*

0.0003*

0.3

  1. VO2: oxygen consumption; DO2: oxygen delivery; OEF: oxygen extraction fraction. - * indicates significantly different result.