Intrauterine growth restriction: contemporary issues in diagnosis and management

Background: Intrauterine growth restriction represents a fetal life treating condition in obstetrics. Diagnosis and appropriate management duringpregnancy is essential because of the considerable morbidity and mortality to which restricted new-borns are exposed. Implementation of diagnosticcriteria could potentially determine an optimized outcome in these patients. Material and methods: The article reflects a study of 728 cases of patients delivered to the Obstetrical department of Municipal Hospital No1, Chisinau,the Republic of Moldova during January-December 2016. A special protocol for clinical and paraclinical data collection was used. From these 728 cases,50 histories of low birth weight fetuses (