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In this prospective case-controlled study, only sixty single pregnancy cases diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus class A1 were evaluated. Fetal splenic artery Doppler parameters such as peak systolic velocity, pulsatility index, resistivity index, and end-diastolic velocity were measured in all cases. The rate of requirements for the neonatal intensive care unit was noted. In cases requiring fetal intensive care, the fetal splenic pulsatility index was found to be statistically significantly lower than in healthy cases without it (0.94 \u00b1 0.29 vs. 1.70 \u00b1 0.53, respectively, p &lt; 0.001, Student\u2019s t-test). When the fetal splenic PI cutoff value was selected as 1.105 cm3, the sensitivity was calculated as 97.9% and the specificity as 58.3% for predicting the need for fetal intensive care (AUC 0.968, p &lt; 0.001, 95% CI 0.929\u20130.998). The use of a low fetal splenic artery PI parameter is a significant and good indicator for predicting the need for fetal intensive care according to the binary logistic regression analysis result (p = 0.006). This study suggests that evaluation of fetal splenic artery Doppler in mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus may be used to predict neonates requiring a newborn intensive care unit. Therefore, it is recommended that obstetricians use this simple, rapid, and valuable evaluation of fetal splenic artery Doppler and alert the neonatologist that a newborn intensive care unit may be required.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jpm14050480","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,3]],"date-time":"2024-05-03T08:02:22Z","timestamp":1714723342000},"page":"480","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Fetal Splenic Artery Pulsatility Index May Predict the Need for Neonatal Intensive Care in Gestational Diabetes Class A1 Cases"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Mehmet","family":"Albayrak","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Kalk\u0131nma Mahallesi Ortahisar, Trabzon 61080, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Humeyra","family":"Akbas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Kalk\u0131nma Mahallesi Ortahisar, Trabzon 61080, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emine Seda","family":"Guvendag Guven","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Kalk\u0131nma Mahallesi Ortahisar, Trabzon 61080, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4832-4525","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Suleyman","family":"Guven","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Kalk\u0131nma Mahallesi Ortahisar, Trabzon 61080, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1991","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMoa0707943","article-title":"Hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy outcomes","volume":"358","author":"Be","year":"2008","journal-title":"N. 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