Ultrasonographic assessment of fetal pathology in the first trimester of pregnancy
Gafiţanu, D.; Pricop, F.; Păvăleanu, M.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 108(1): 147-150
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 15688773 Document Number: 569271
The fetal pathology can be diagnosed even from the first trimester of pregnancy using ultrasonographic markers. We tried to follow only one of them, that is nuchal translucency. We measured it in 166 low risk pregnancies after the established protocol. We used both the technique of sequential screening (to establish the chromosomal risk) and the likelihood ratio of the nuchal translucency for the cardiac (nonchromosomal) pathology. We found a rate of 3.61% cases with high risk for fetal disorders. In these ones is better to use diagnostic investigations such as genetic or morphologic assessment during the second trimester.