Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of fetal neural tube defects in cases of polyhydramnios. Study Design: Descriptive type of study. Place and duration of study: It was conducted in Radiology department of Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) in collaboration with gynaecology department of Mother and Child hospit...

Most fetal goitrous hypothyroidisms are reportedly caused by the maternal use of an antithyroid drug or fetal dyshormonogenesis. However, fetal goitrous hypothyroidism due to the transplacental passage of maternal thyroid stimulation-blocking antibody (TSBAb) is extremely rare. A woman at 28 weeks of gestation was found to have a fetal goiter by ultrasonography. Because the maternal serum showe...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and usefulness of sagittal color Doppler ultrasonography (CDUS) for the diagnosis of fetal cleft lip (CL) and cleft palate (CP). METHODS We performed targeted ultrasonography on 25 fetuses with CL and CP, taking coronal and axial images of the upper lip and maxillary alveolar arch in each case. The existence of defects in and m...

OBJECTIVE To study the morphological and functional abnormalities of the fetal cardiovascular system detectable through ultrasonography. METHODS The study comprised 3,980 fetuses of pregnant women with no obstetrical or cardiological risk in the municipality of Porto Alegre, who, from July 1996 to November 2000, underwent echocardiography for screening fetal cardiovascular malformations. The ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the reproducibility of fetal thigh and upper arm volumes measurement by threedimensional ultrasonography utilizing the eXtended Imaging Virtual Organ Computer-aided AnaLysis (XI VOCAL) method. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This reproducibility study enrolled 43 pregnant women with healthy singleton pregnancies between 20 and 37 gestational weeks. The XI VOCAL 10 planes was the met...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the best time of examination and section chosen of routine prenatal ultrasound screening for external ear abnormalities and evaluate the feasibility of examining the fetal external ear with ultrasonography. METHODS From July 2010 until August 2011, 42118 pregnant women with single fetus during 16-40 weeks of pregnancy were enrolled in the study. Fetal auricles and ex...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and outcome of prenatal imaging and fetal surgery in the diagnosis and management of fetal airway obstruction caused by cervical teratoma or lymphatic malformation. SETTING Tertiary care medical center. Patients A retrospective study of all consecutive fetal patients with cervical teratoma or lymphatic malformation between January 2001 and December ...

Mice reproduce many features of human pregnancy and have been widely used to model disorders of pregnancy. However, it has not been known whether fetal mice reproduce the physiologic response to hypoxia known as brain sparing, where blood flow is redistributed to preserve oxygenation of the brain at the expense of other fetal organs. In the present study, blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) mag...

Purpose: There are conflicting data about the effects of fetal echocardiography (fECHO) on psychiatric symptoms mother and cardiac evaluation fetus. 
 Methods: This study included 119 pregnant women who evaluated using fECHO as group 65 healthy ultrasonography for routine screening control group. All participants filled out State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)...