Fetal growth restriction in early pregnancy increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome, which has a significant social and psychological impact on women. There is limited information related to community-based study to evaluate early indicators related to miscarriage. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between fetal growth restriction, measured by ultrasound crown-rump le...

PURPOSE To examine the upper body strength, speed, power, and strength-endurance of rugby-league players of different ranks. These data could provide information pertinent to the importance of these factors for different grades of rugby league and for positional groups in those different grades. METHODS Sixty rugby-league players, 20 participants each in the elite, national first-division lea...

OBJECTIVES To compare liver volume between trisomy 21 and euploid fetuses at 11 to 13 weeks' gestation. METHODS Fetal liver volume was measured by 3D ultrasound in fetuses at low risk of aneuploidies (n = 200) and another group at high risk, including 148 euploid and 37 with trisomy 21. The association of liver volume with fetal nuchal translucency (NT) thickness, tricuspid regurgitation and ...

OBJECTIVE Discordance in nuchal translucency measurements in monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies was assessed as predictor of Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. STUDY DESIGN A total of 61 monochorionic diamniotic twins were enrolled. Nuchal translucency (NT) and crown-rump-length (CRL) discordance was calculated as the percentage of delta NT and CRL (absolute difference NT/CRL fetus 1 a...

OBJECTIVE (1) To validate the mixture model in a single operator dataset and (2) to compare the detection rates for fetal chromosomal defects obtained from the mixture model with those obtained from either the delta nuchal translucency (NT) or log multiple of the median (MoM) approach. METHODS Database query, viable singletons [crown-rump length (CRL) 45-84 mm corresponding to 11-13(+6) weeks...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of early growth disturbance in chromosomally abnormal fetuses by comparing the volume of the fetal head to that of the trunk. METHODS The fetal trunk and head volume was measured using three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound in 145 chromosomally abnormal fetuses at a median gestational age of 12 (range, 11 + 0 to 13 + 6) weeks. The head volume was measured separat...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to demonstrate that Carnegie Stages could be assigned to embryos visualized with a 3D virtual reality system. METHODS We analysed 48 3D ultrasound scans of 19 IVF/ICSI pregnancies at 7-10 weeks' gestation. These datasets were visualized as 3D 'holograms' in the BARCO I-Space virtual reality system. Embryos were staged according to external morphological fe...

The application of first trimester volumetry in predicting pregnancy complications is a promising and interesting field in Obstetrics and Radiology. This was a descriptive review of first trimester volumetry in predicting pregnancy complications over a period of 6 months (January 1st, 2013 to June 30th, 2013). A search of literature on first trimester volumetry published in English was conducte...

Objective: Quantitative analysis of the quality of nuchal translucency (NT) measurements. Methods: This is a retrospective single-center study. NT was measured according to the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) criteria by 20 trained obstetricians (October 2003-November 2009). The performance of NT measurements was analyzed with regard to several quality control standards. Accuracy according to e...