What is it about?
This review is based on the latest Literature that prove how ultrasound fetal anatomy can be related not only with chromosomal abnormalities, but also with structural defects, like cardiovascular ones, with developing brain injuries or with developing syndromic diseases; furthermore pregnancy complications like preeclampsia and preterm birth have been considered too.
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Why is it important?
this review shows how fetal anatomy con be explores bay ultrasound and how many fetal features can be related to some pathologies not only structural defects
Perspectives
we need more studies to investigate fetal anatomy and moreover to relate syndromes or chromosomal anomalies, but the new ultrasound machines allow us every day to reach new data
Carlo Luchi
Universita degli Studi di Pisa
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This page is a summary of: The ongoing debate over fetal anatomic surveys in the first trimester: a matter of timing?, Research and Reports in Neonatology, March 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2147/rrn.s47072.
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