Single umbilical artery. Correlation of clinical status and umbilical cord histology
G. Altshuler, R. C. Tsang and R. Ermocilla
Although numerous reports are available concerning infants who have single
umbilical artery, there are no studies that correlate the incidence of
congenital malformations or prognosis of such infants with the presence or
absence of an atrophied artery in their associated umbilical cords. For
this reason, we studied 48 infants who have single umbilical artery. No
significant differences were detected in congenital malformations or
neonatal mortality between infants with atrophy of one of their arteries
and infants with arterial aplasia.
