Diagnostic ultrasound exposure during pregnancy potentially affects rabbit fetal parathyroid hormone level

Author

Dom, S.M. ; Razak, H.R.A.

Author_Institution

Med. Imaging Dept., Univ. Teknol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

3-4 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

116

Abstract

Prenatal hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is one of the true emergency cases and capable of causing serious problems to the mother as well as the unborn baby. This in-vivo study was aimed to investigate the changes in parathyroid hormone (PTH) level of rabbit fetal bodies exposed to diagnostic ultrasound during pregnancy for varying duration of time. As compared to that of control, significantly low PTH levels were observed in the groups exposed for 30 and 60 minutes during pregnancy. This ultrasound heating effect could trigger further studies to look for any adverse effects and/or clinical benefits in human during fetal stage.

Keywords

biological effects of acoustic radiation; biomedical ultrasonics; medical disorders; obstetrics; PTH levels; diagnostic ultrasound exposure; fetal parathyroid hormone level; fetal stage; pregnancy; prenatal hyperparathyroidism; time 30 min; time 60 min; ultrasound heating; diagnostic ultrasound; hyperparathyroidism (HPT); hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT); parathyroid hormone (PTH); parathyroid hormone-intact (PTH-I) test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2012 IEEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

Kota Kinabalu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4615-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHUSER.2012.6504292

Filename

6504292