Ultrasonography, Prenatal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Bayesian latent variable mixture model for longitudinal fetal growth. 
  • A gestational-age-independent model of birth weight based on placental size. 
  • A prospective blinded comparison of second trimester fetal measurements by expert and novice readers using low-cost novice-acquired 3D volumetric ultrasound. 
  • A role for maternal serum screening in detecting chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses with isolated choroid plexus cysts: a prospective multicentre study. 
  • AIUM Practice Guideline for the performance of an antepartum obstetric ultrasound examination. 
  • AIUM practice guideline for the performance of obstetric ultrasound examinations. 
  • Abnormalities of Fetal Situs: An Overview and Literature Review. 
  • Abnormalities of the Fetal Central Nervous System: Prenatal US Diagnosis with Postnatal Correlation. 
  • Accuracy of estimated fetal weight assessment in fetuses with abdominal wall defects. 
  • Adjusting for bias due to incomplete case ascertainment in case-control studies of birth defects. 
  • Alterations in cardiac output in fetuses with congenital heart disease. 
  • American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical competence statement on echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence. 
  • Aneurysm of the vein of Galen: prenatal diagnosis and perinatal management. 
  • Angle correction can be used to measure peak systolic velocity in the fetal middle cerebral artery. 
  • Antenatal sonographic diagnosis of isolated bilateral fibular hemimelia. 
  • Antenatal sonographic features of Walker-Warburg syndrome. Value of endovaginal sonography. 
  • Antenatal surveillance of fetal growth restriction. 
  • Antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis of abdominal wall hemangioma: potential to simulate ventral abdominal wall defects. 
  • Antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. 
  • Antenatal ultrasonographic findings in the CHARGE association. 
  • Assessment of the post-term pregnancy. 
  • Associations of maternal retinal vasculature with subsequent fetal growth and birth size. 
  • Autosomal dominant cataracts of the fetus: early detection by transvaginal ultrasound. 
  • Blunt prenatal trauma resulting in fetal epidural or subdural hematoma: case report and systematic review of the literature. 
  • Bronchogenic cyst: imaging features with clinical and histopathologic correlation. 
  • Cardiovascular malformations: changes in prevalence and birth status, 1972-1990. 
  • Cerebellar vermian defects: antenatal sonographic appearance and clinical significance. 
  • Choroid plexus-ventricular wall separation in fetuses with normal-sized cerebral ventricles at sonography: postnatal outcome. 
  • Circulating angiogenic factors and abnormal uterine artery Doppler velocimetry in the second trimester. 
  • Clinical Utility of Fetal Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging. 
  • Colonic duplication: another suspected diagnosis in a prenatal ultrasound with double bubble sign. 
  • Combined serum and ultrasound screening for detection of fetal aneuploidy. 
  • Comparative estimates of neonatal gestational maturity by electrographic and fetal ultrasonographic criteria. 
  • Comparison of gestational age at birth based on last menstrual period and ultrasound during the first trimester. 
  • Comparison of pregnancy dating by last menstrual period, ultrasound scanning, and their combination. 
  • Contemporary approaches to prenatal diagnosis. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of prenatal screening methods for congenital heart defects in pregnancies conceived by in-vitro fertilization. 
  • Cyst of the velum interpositum: antenatal ultrasonographic features and differential diagnosis. 
  • Diagnosis and Management of Congenital Uterine Anomalies in Pregnancy. 
  • Diagnosis and antenatal management of congenital cytomegalovirus infection. 
  • Diagnosis of cardiac defects: where we've been, where we are and where we're going. 
  • Diagnosis of placenta previa during the third trimester: role of transperineal sonography. 
  • Diffuse neonatal hemangiomatosis: imaging findings in two patients. 
  • Diminution in size of a fetal intrathoracic mass: caution against aggressive in utero management. 
  • Does the use of diagnostic technology reduce fetal mortality? 
  • Doppler US assessment of maternal kidneys: analysis of intrarenal resistivity indexes in normal pregnancy and physiologic pelvicaliectasis. 
  • Doppler flow patterns in the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery shunt and neo-aorta in infants with single right ventricle anomalies: impact on outcome after initial staged palliations. 
  • Dysmorphologic features of the fetal pelvis in Down syndrome: prenatal sonographic depiction and diagnostic implications of the iliac angle. 
  • Early malaria infection, dysregulation of angiogenesis, metabolism and inflammation across pregnancy, and risk of preterm birth in Malawi: A cohort study. 
  • Ectopic pregnancy: ultrasonographic diagnosis and interpretive pitfalls. 
  • Effect of magnesium on fetal heart rate variability using computer analysis. 
  • Enlarged fetal gallbladder: prognostic importance for aneuploidy or biliary abnormality at antenatal US. 
  • Ethics in prenatal consultation for surgically correctable anomalies and fetal intervention. 
  • Evaluation and comparison of current fetal ultrasound image segmentation methods for biometric measurements: a grand challenge. 
  • Evolving fetal hydranencephaly mimicking intracranial neoplasm. 
  • Expectant management versus elective curettage for the treatment of spontaneous abortion. 
  • Familial recurrence of SOX2 anophthalmia syndrome: phenotypically normal mother with two affected daughters. 
  • Fetal Ventriculomegaly. 
  • Fetal bifid sacrum artifact: normal developmental anatomy simulating malformation. 
  • Fetal biometry in the Brachmann-de Lange syndrome. 
  • Fetal brain development of twins assessed in utero by ultrasound: implications for schizophrenia. 
  • Fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly: misidentification of the true medial boundary of the ventricle at US. 
  • Fetal echocardiography and fetal cardiology: indications, diagnosis and management. 
  • Fetal fourth ventricle: US appearance and frequency of depiction. 
  • Fetal gallstones in a contracted gallbladder: potential to simulate hepatic or peritoneal calcification. 
  • Fetal lateral ventricles: reassessment of normal values for atrial diameter at US. 
  • Fetal ovarian torsion appearing as a solid abdominal mass. 
  • Fetal renal vein thrombosis, hydrops fetalis, and maternal lupus anticoagulant. A case report. 
  • Frequency and prediction of persistent urinary tract dilation in third trimester and postnatal urinary tract dilation in infants following diagnosis in second trimester. 
  • Gastroschisis: A Review of Management and Outcomes. 
  • Gastroschisis: the effect of labor and ruptured membranes on neonatal outcome. 
  • Genetics for the Women's Health Trainee: A Five-Module Curriculum. 
  • Global longitudinal cardiac strain and strain rate for assessment of fetal cardiac function: novel experience with velocity vector imaging. 
  • Health resource utilization of labor induction versus expectant management. 
  • Hyperechoic meconium in the third trimester fetus: an uncommon normal variant. 
  • Impact of changing indications and increased utilization of fetal echocardiography on prenatal detection of congenital heart disease. 
  • Improving maternal-infant bonding after prenatal diagnosis of CHD. 
  • In vivo application of short-lag spatial coherence and harmonic spatial coherence imaging in fetal ultrasound. 
  • Incoherent Clutter Suppression Using Lag-One Coherence. 
  • Indications for fetal echocardiography. 
  • Is the rate of congenital heart defects detected by fetal echocardiography among pregnancies conceived by in vitro fertilization really increased?: a case-historical control study. 
  • Late second trimester assessment of pyelectasis (SERP) to predict pediatric urological outcome is improved by checking additional features. 
  • Leiomyomas of the fallopian tube. A case report. 
  • Lethal multiple pterygium syndrome: antenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis. 
  • MR imaging findings in fetal goiter caused by maternal graves disease. 
  • Management Considerations for Ongoing Pregnancies Complicated by Trisomy 13 and 18. 
  • Maternal psychological distress, prenatal cortisol, and fetal weight. 
  • Mild fetal renal pelviectasis. Differentiation from hilar vascularity using color Doppler sonography. 
  • Mild fetal ventriculomegaly: diagnosis, evaluation, and management. 
  • Mild ventriculomegaly detected in utero with ultrasound: clinical associations and implications for schizophrenia. 
  • Mortality conference: twin-to-twin transfusion. 
  • Multi-covariate Imaging of Sub-resolution Targets. 
  • Nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and neurotrophin-3 levels in human amniotic fluid. 
  • Non-immune hydrops after 20 weeks' gestation: review of 10 years' experience with suggestions for management. 
  • Nonimmune hydrops and hydrocephalus secondary to fetal intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • Nonvisualization of the fetal gallbladder: frequency and prognostic importance. 
  • Normal fetal pelvis: important factors for morphometric characterization with US. 
  • Novel pathogenic variants in FOXP3 in fetuses with echogenic bowel and skin desquamation identified by ultrasound. 
  • Novel transatrial septoplasty technique for neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and an intact or highly restrictive atrial septum. 
  • Obstetric Ultrasound Efficiency and Accuracy Using a Protocol-Based Examination. 
  • Optimal timing of initial postnatal ultrasonography in newborns with prenatal hydronephrosis. 
  • Optimizing transperineal sonographic imaging of the cervix: the hip elevation technique. 
  • Outcome of antenatally diagnosed cystic adenomatoid malformations. 
  • Outcome of pregnancies with elevation of both maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein and human chorionic gonadotropin. 
  • Pelvic CT morphometry in Down syndrome: implications for prenatal US evaluation--preliminary results. 
  • Pentalogy of Cantrell with ectopia cordis totalis, total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, and tetralogy of Fallot: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Perinatal management of a lingual teratoma. 
  • Photo quiz. Vaginal bleeding at 16 weeks. 
  • Physician Barriers and Facilitators for Screening for Congenital Heart Disease With Routine Obstetric Ultrasound: A National United States Survey. 
  • Placental structural abnormalities in gestational diabetes and when they develop: A scoping review. 
  • Point-of-Care Ultrasound Abnormalities in Late-Onset Severe Preeclampsia: Prevalence and Association With Serum Albumin and Brain Natriuretic Peptide. 
  • Porencephaly secondary to fetal trauma during amniocentesis. 
  • Prediction of birthweight from third-trimester ultrasound in morbidly obese women. 
  • Prediction of outcome in fetal autoimmune complete heart block. 
  • Pregnancy complicated by foetal abdominal mass: Fetiform teratoma versus foetus-in-fetu. 
  • Pregnancy with prolonged fetal exposure to an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. 
  • Pregnancy-related fibroid reduction. 
  • Prenatal course of isolated muscular ventricular septal defects diagnosed only by color Doppler sonography: single-institution experience. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and management of massive bilateral axillary cystic lymphangioma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and perinatal management of fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy by fetal muscle biopsy. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of a trauma-related fetal epidural hematoma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of mosaic trisomy 13: a case report. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis of renal agenesis in a twin gestation. 
  • Prenatal dysthymia versus major depression effects on maternal cortisol and fetal growth. 
  • Prenatal genetic diagnosis of Neu-Laxova syndrome. 
  • Prenatal mild ventriculomegaly predicts abnormal development of the neonatal brain. 
  • Prenatal sonographic detection of giant parietal foramina. 
  • Prenatal ultrasonographic findings associated with short bowel syndrome in two fetuses with gastroschisis. 
  • Prenatal ultrasound findings of linear nevus sebaceous and its association with cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung. 
  • Prevalence of uterine leiomyomas in the first trimester of pregnancy: an ultrasound-screening study. 
  • Primary megaureter mimicking hydrosalpinx on ultrasonography. 
  • Prior cesarean and the risk for placenta previa on second-trimester ultrasonography. 
  • Refining Angular Pregnancy Diagnosis in the First Trimester: A Case Series of Expectant Management. 
  • SMFM Fetal Anomalies Consult Series #3: Intracranial Anomalies. 
  • SMFM Fetal Anomalies Consult Series #4: Genitourinary anomalies. 
  • Second-trimester ductus venosus measurement and adverse perinatal outcome in fetuses with congenital heart disease. 
  • Self-reported vitamin supplementation in early pregnancy and risk of miscarriage. 
  • Separation of Thoraco-Omphalo-Ischiopagus Conjoined Twins: Surgical Planning, Management, and Outcomes. 
  • Severe factor V deficiency presenting with intracranial haemorrhage during gestation. 
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #56: Hepatitis C in pregnancy-updated guidelines: Replaces Consult Number 43, November 2017. 
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #57: Evaluation and management of isolated soft ultrasound markers for aneuploidy in the second trimester: (Replaces Consults #10, Single umbilical artery, October 2010; #16, Isolated echogenic bowel diagnosed on second-trimester ultrasound, August 2011; #17, Evaluation and management of isolated renal pelviectasis on second-trimester ultrasound, December 2011; #25, Isolated fetal choroid plexus cysts, April 2013; #27, Isolated echogenic intracardiac focus, August 2013). 
  • Sonographic diagnosis of premature cervical dilatation. Potential pitfall due to lower uterine segment contractions. 
  • Sonographic evaluation for ectopic pregnancy: transabdominal scanning of patients with nondistended urinary bladders as a complement to transvaginal sonography. 
  • Sonographic evaluation of fetal CNS: technical and interpretive pitfalls. 
  • Sonography of fetal choroid plexus cysts: detection depends on cyst size and gestational age. 
  • Sonography of the cervix during the third trimester of pregnancy: value of the transperineal approach. 
  • Sonography of the fetal gastrointestinal tract: anatomic variants, diagnostic pitfalls, and abnormalities. 
  • Spontaneously changing gravid cervix: clinical implications and prognostic features. 
  • Stress and placental resistance measured by Doppler ultrasound in early and mid-pregnancy. 
  • Syphilis in Pregnancy. 
  • The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Fetal Anomalies Consult Series. 
  • The anterior iliac separation: alternative index for pelvic morphometry in fetuses with Down syndrome. 
  • The association of aneuploidy and unexplained elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein. 
  • The cerebroplacental Doppler ratio predicts postnatal outcome in fetuses with congenital heart block. 
  • The effect of fetal heart rate on the peak systolic velocity of the fetal middle cerebral artery. 
  • The fetal gastrointestinal tract. 
  • The incarcerated uterus: a review of MRI and ultrasound imaging appearances. 
  • The role of ultrasound in women who undergo cell-free DNA screening. 
  • Third ventricle: size and appearance in normal fetuses through gestation. 
  • Transperineal US: alternative technique to improve visualization of the presenting fetal part. 
  • Transperineal sonography in the diagnosis of placenta previa. 
  • Trends in fetal echocardiography and implications for clinical practice: 1985 to 2003. 
  • Trisomy 18 Pregnancies: Is there an Increased Maternal Risk? 
  • Ultrasound Examination of the Fetal Heart. 
  • Ultrasound diagnosis of fetal anomalies associated with in utero cocaine exposure: further support for cocaine-induced vascular disruption teratogenesis. 
  • Urorectal septum malformation sequence. 
  • Use of endo-vaginal ultrasound to optimize visualization of the distal fetal spine in breech presentations. 
  • Use of magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound in the antenatal diagnosis of placenta accreta. 
  • Utility of fetal echocardiogram in high-risk patients. 
  • Utilization of antenatal ultrasound scan and implications for caesarean section: a cross-sectional study in rural Eastern China. 
  • Variation in Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease in Infants. 
  • Vasa previa: prenatal diagnosis by transperineal sonography with Doppler evaluation. 
  • Versatile Low-Cost Volumetric 3-D Ultrasound Platform for Existing Clinical 2-D Systems. 
  • What Are Criteria for Considering Technologies' Uses and Influences in LMICs' Health Care Infrastructures? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Livingston, Elizabeth Gresham, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine