A sustained decline in parental consent rates for perinatal autopsies has driven the
development of less‐invasive methods for death investigation. A wide variety of imaging …

Many genetic disorders are detectable in the prenatal period, and the capacity to identify
them has increased remarkably as molecular genetic testing techniques continue to improve …

Objective To determine the proportion of infant deaths occurring in the setting of a confirmed
genetic disorder. Study design A retrospective analysis of the electronic medical records of …

The United States Center for Health Statistics defines a fetal death as the delivery of a fetus
showing no sign of life, as indicated by absent breathing, heartbeats, pulsation of the …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the risk of stillbirth (fetal death at 20 weeks of gestation or more)
associated with specific birth defects. METHODS: We identified a population-based …

Stillbirth is defined in the United States as fetal death at 20 weeks' gestation and greater. In
the United States, the rate of stillbirth exceeds that of other high-income countries at 5.96 per …

Abstract Stillbirth impacts 5.73 per 1,000 births in the United States and this rate exceeds
that of contemporary high-resource countries. 1, 2 Risk factors include both demographic …

Background A core outcome set could address inconsistent outcome reporting and improve
evidence for stillbirth care research, which have been identified as an important research …

Objective Inequities in stillbirth rate according to ethnicity persist in high‐income nations.
The objective of the present study is to investigate whether causes of stillbirth differ by …

Objectives To determine the feasibility and tissue yield of a perinatal incisionless ultrasound‐
guided biopsy procedure, the INcisionless Targeted Core Tissue (INTACT) technique, in the …