abstract：OBJECTIVES:This report wants to focus on the risk of severe prematurity in patients with the hypermobility type of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a heritable disorder of connective tissue. Although various obstetrical complications have been reported in patients with EDS, most reports specifically comment on the sev...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： De Vos M,Nuytinck L,Verellen C,De Paepe A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies cite different possible etiologies for fetal echogenic bowel (FEB). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possible etiologies for second-trimester FEB, and to provide clinical guidelines for evaluation of this finding. The study included 79 patients diagnosed with FEB in the second trimester. ...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Yaron Y,Hassan S,Geva E,Kupferminc MJ,Yavetz H,Evans MI

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the sequential combination of ultrasound screening for fetal aneuploidy at 11-14 weeks with maternal biochemistry at 12-14 and 15-18 weeks of gestation. METHODS:A prospective study including 1,656 women, with a singleton pregnancy booked before 13 weeks of gestation. Nuchal translucency (NT) thic...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Benattar C,Audibert F,Taieb J,Ville Y,Roberto A,Lindenbaum A,Frydman R

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been appreciated that the measurement of biochemical parameters for prenatal screening for neural tube defects, and later aneuploidy, is not as simple as measuring hemoglobin or hematocrit. Early in the game, it was recognized that there are gestational age curves, and that since alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), f...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Brooks K,Chik L,O'Brien JE,Ayoub M,Johnson MP,Evans MI

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The incidence of Down syndrome increases with maternal age and a rapid and accurate method for prenatal diagnosis is a necessity. This study was devised to evaluate and compare the methods for detecting trisomy 21 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-associated analysis of small tandem repeats (STR) of D21S11 ...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Yang YH,Kim IK,Oh SH,Kim CK,Kim JY

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We wanted to obtain statistically relevant data about the efficiency of our method for the isolation of fetal nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) from the maternal circulation. METHODS:More than 600 samples were investigated using a triple density gradient followed by magnetic separation of anti-CD71-labeled c...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Gänshirt D,Smeets FW,Dohr A,Walde C,Steen I,Lapucci C,Falcinelli C,Sant R,Velasco M,Garritsen HS,Holzgreve W

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine ultrasound examination is defined as a screening procedure performed on the total obstetric population usually at 18-20 weeks of gestation as opposed to the selective use of ultrasound that might provide more information for a problem that is suspected on clinical grounds. Standard ultrasound examination inclu...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Antsaklis AJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were to gain some insight with regard to the safety of the coelocentesis procedure and, to determine pH, pCO2, and base excess status of the extracoelomic fluid 40 days after fertilization. METHODS:Twenty-eight timed-mated baboons from the breeding colony of the Biological Resource La...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Santolaya-Forgas J,Vengalil S,Kushwaha A,Bieniarz A,Fortman J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report prenatal diagnostic studies for metaphyseal chondrodysplasia of the Schmid type. Identification of a specific COL10A1 gene mutation in an affected father allowed prenatal diagnosis by chorionic villus sampling in a twin pregnancy. Neither of the nonidentical twins received the abnormal COL10A1 gene from thei...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Milunsky J,Maher T,Lebo R,Milunsky A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The management of a case of severe twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome at 24 weeks of gestation is presented, using a combined surgical and medical approach. METHODS:Operative fetoscopy was used to coagulate placental vessels crossing the intertwin membranes. Repeated intrauterine transfusions were used to cor...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Van Peborgh P,Pelletier G,Suarez B,Ville Y

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify determinants of requesting pastoral care (PC) at the time of pregnancy termination for fetal anomalies. METHODS:PC was provided by a hospital-based chaplain. Data were reviewed for 88 women who elected pregnancy termination. Nominal logistic regression and Kruskal-Wallis and Student t tests were ...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Brady TB,Lidums S,Yaron Y,Evans MI,Johnson MP,Kramer RL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old primigravida at 26 weeks gestation presented with fetal hydrops and fetal anemia following prior parvovirus B19 infection. The fetus required two intrauterine transfusions of packed red cells. At 35 weeks gestation, a cesarean section was performed for obstetric reasons. As a consequence of a prenatal bo...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Schild RL,Plath H,Thomas P,Schulte-Wissermann H,Eis-Hübinger AM,Hansmann M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efficacy of flecainide acetate for the treatment of fetal supraventricular tachycardia with cardiac failure was reported. CASE:For a case in which maternal digoxin therapy failed, flecainide acetate (400 mg/day) is used from 27 weeks. Cardioversion with improved cardiac function occurred 6 days after treatm...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Amano K,Harada Y,Shoda T,Nishijima M,Hiraishi S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At 28 weeks of amenorrhea, 1 fetus of a monoamniotic twin pregnancy died. Ultrasound and Doppler investigations of the surviving twin were normal. Three weeks later, endovaginal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging revealed massive bilateral cerebral ischemic necrosis in the surviving twin. In utero fetal blood s...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Langer B,Boudier E,Gasser B,Christmann D,Messer J,Schlaeder G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the evolution of the management of delivery and neonatal care in a population of children with correctable malformations born in Parisian maternity hospitals during the period 1985-1994. METHODS:Data were collected by the Paris Registry of Congenital Anomalies from 400,000 births recorded in Paris...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： De Vigan C,Goujard J,Vodovar V,Uzan S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 6 years early amniocentesis for the prenatal diagnosis of chromosome aberrations has been established in many centers worldwide, but knowledge about the gynecological safety of the procedure is sparse. From 1990 to 1995 at the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oberhausen (Germany) 3,277 early amniocenteses (betwee...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Eiben B,Hammans W,Hansen S,Trawicki W,Osthelder B,Stelzer A,Jaspers KD,Goebel R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have investigated the maternal effects of distending the uterine cavity with Hartmann's solution in 2nd trimester equivalent pregnant sheep. In 7 pregnant ewes, double endoscopic cannulation of the amniotic cavity was performed under general anesthesia, and 1 liter of Hartmann's solution at 38 degree...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Evrard VA,Verbeke K,Peers KH,Luks FI,Lerut AE,Vandenberghe K,Deprest JA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides detailed neonatal and congenital malformation follow-up from 695 women enrolled in a prospective randomized multicenter study comparing the safety and accuracy of early (11-12 weeks of gestation) and midtrimester amniocentesis (15-16 weeks of gestation). No differences were found for total p...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Wilson RD,Johnson J,Windrim R,Dansereau J,Singer J,Winsor EJ,Kalousek D

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented in which X-linked ichthyosis was diagnosed prenatally using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Fetal sex was known by second trimester ultrasound in a woman with very low second trimester MSUE3. All of the 15 maternal peripheral blood metaphase spreads examined displayed two hybridization signals ...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Santolaya-Forgas J,Cohen L,Vengalil S,Field F,Rodriguez A,McCorquadale M,McCorquadale DJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five postmortem fetuses were scanned by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Of eight three-dimensional (3D) data sets reconstructed on an MGI workstation, five sets demonstrated detailed 3D fetal cardiac structures, and one depicted clear information regarding the disposition and compression of the heart and lungs in dia...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Deng J,Brookes JA,Gardener JE,Rodeck CH,Lees WR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute hydramnios is a rare complication of pregnancy, usually of idiopathic etiology and associated with a very poor perinatal prognosis. In this single case report, acute hydramnios at 21 weeks' gestation, associated with fetal CMV infection, was treated by a single large volume reduction amniocentesis combined with ...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Bondagji N,Manning FA,Martel J,Harman CR,Morrison I

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In newborn the finding of adrenal gland hemorrhage is not uncommon. Only few cases of prenatal diagnosis of fetal adrenal bleeding by sonography have been reported. CASE:In a 28-year-old nulliparous pregnant woman, routine sonography performed in 35 + 2 weeks of gestational age showed a cystic mass on the u...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Vollersen E,Hof M,Gembruch U

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphangiomas are commonly diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound. These anomalies are most often cervical, but occasionally present in the axilla, thorax and abdomen. We present a case in which intrauterine drainage was followed by an uneventful vaginal delivery. CASE:A 30-year-old G4P3 female was referred to ou...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Kaufman GE,D'Alton ME,Crombleholme TM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors performed a color Doppler ultrasound examination of both renal and interlobar arteries of 15 pregnant women affected by pregnancy-induced hypertension. The pulsatility index (PI), the resistance index (RI) and the systolic/diastolic ratio (S/D) values were compared with those of 15 healthy pregnant women o...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Boemi G,Bruno MT,La Ferrera G,Butera L,Pulvirenti G,Lanzone A,Mancuso S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the study were to assess the ability of a fetal pulse oximeter to measure the fetal oxygen saturation (SPO2) continuously during labor and to assess the correlation between readings of fetal pulse oximetry and cord blood gases at birth. The Nellcor N-400 Fetal Oximeter was used in 62 women prospectiv...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Langer B,Boudier E,Haddad J,Pain L,Schlaeder G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal growth restriction with oligohydramnios occurring in the preterm gestation is associated with significant fetal morbidity and mortality. We investigated the possibility that transabdominal amnioinfusion might relieve acute cord compression and allow prolongation of gestation long enough to administer corticoster...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Sarno AP,Polzin WJ,Feinstein SJ,Maslow A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The umbilical artery, aorta, and middle cerebral artery pulsatility indices were investigated by pulsed Doppler ultrasound in 73 fetuses at 18-37 weeks of gestation, before and after fetal blood sampling performed either at the placental cord insertion (n = 46) or at the intrahepatic vein (n = 27). At the end of the p...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Zoppini C,Brioschi D,Tassis B,Zuliani G,Kustermann A,Nicolini U

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this report was to evaluate the effect of ultrasonographic (US) findings on pregnancy management in patients with marker chromosome (MC) aneuploidy ascertained through prenatal diagnosis. From 1989 through June 1993, 15,522 prenatal diagnostic procedures were performed for accepted indications. Charts...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Hume RF Jr,Drugan A,Ebrahim SA,Johnson MP,Isada NB,Reichler A,Evans MI

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of middle cerebral artery compensatory vasodilation appears to be ominous in fetuses with absent end-diastolic umbilical waveforms. The authors report a case with a loss of the 'brain-sparing effect' 24 h before fetal death. Current pathophysiological explanations are discussed. ...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Chitrit Y,Zorn B,Filidori M,Bucourt M,Chasseray JE,Caubel P

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal responses in 7 cases of mid-trimester amniocentesis, complicated by inadvertent contact between the amniocentesis needle and fetal parts, were analyzed by retrospective videotape review. The incidence of inadvertent needle contact with the fetus was 0.4% (7 of 1,458). Responses included brisk withdrawal of the '...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Petrikovsky BM,Kaplan GP

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the frequency of associated malformations and chromosomal defects in patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) our experiences with CDH during the last 8 years (1985-1993) were reviewed. During the study period, 33 fetuses (prenatal group) with CDH were examined at our level III ultraso...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Bollmann R,Kalache K,Mau H,Chaoui R,Tennstedt C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal stem cell transplantation may rely on material from therapeutic abortions. It is essential that the stem cell transplant does not transmit any microorganisms that may affect the fetus and that genetically abnormal cells are avoided. To evaluate such contamination, human fetal stem cells collected February 1992 -...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Ek S,Westgren M,Pschera H,Seiger A,Sundström E,Bui TH,Ringdén O

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of the adequacy of fetal growth by measurements of fetal size required theoretical formulae for the assessment of present size from previous measurements. The various models presented in the literature assume the same mathematical formula for the whole pregnancy. In this study, a model of different polynomi...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Nitzan M,Tadmor OP,Skomorowski Y,Rabinowitz R,Diamant Y

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1984 percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy (PMC) has replaced closed mitral commissurotomy in most of its indications. However the application of this technique to pregnant women had raised considerable concern essentially because of the risk of fetal distress and irradiation. Of 1,017 PMC performed between...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Sananes S,Iung B,Vahanian A,Acar J,Salat-Baroux J,Uzan S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic adrenal masses are unusual in the fetus. The most common diagnosis for adrenal cyst is hemorrhage. We report 2 cases of cystic neuroblastoma diagnosed prenatally by ultrasound. In each case, diagnosis was confirmed in the neonatal period first by scintigraphy, then by histology. Differential diagnosis and manag...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Dreyfus M,Neuhart D,Baldauf JJ,Casanova R,Becmeur F,Ritter J

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the first case of an isolated bilateral radial ray reduction occurring in a fetus exposed in utero to valproic acid; the diagnosis was made by ultrasound during the second trimester. This case of an isolated radial ray reduction associated with valproic acid use in pregnancy is a reminder for sono...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Langer B,Haddad J,Gasser B,Maubert M,Schlaeder G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed morphometric measurements from midgestational fetal necropsies and shown that arm and foot lengths are linear relationships versus gestational age (GA). Using foot length as the GA determinant, we found that the ratio of arm:foot length was also a linear relationship and was decreased in trisomy 21 fe...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Johnson MP,Michaelson JE,Barr M Jr,Treadwell MC,Isada NB,Dombrowski MP,Pryde PG,Addis J,Evans MI

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial invasion and growth in amniotic fluid play an important role in infectious perinatal morbidity and mortality. In order to determine the influence of amniocentesis (ACT) on intra-amniotic infection development, we performed a study of 239 complete microbiological examinations of amniotic fluid specimens obtai...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Terzić MM,Plećas DV,Stimec BV,Petković SV

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein reviewed 630 malformed fetuses delivered from 24 weeks of gestation onwards in our institute over the past 22 years. These fetuses were divided into 2 groups: 210 from 1970 to 1982 (group 1) and 420 from 1983 to 1991 (group 2). Twenty-two varieties of congenital malformations were diagnosed antenatally in gr...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Hori E,Koyanagi T,Yoshizato T,Maeda H,Satoh S,Suita S,Ueda K,Nakano H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented in which ultrasonographic examination led to the prenatal detection of a ring 13 chromosome in a fetus. At 18 weeks' gestation, the fetus presented with holoprosencephaly, an abnormal configuration of the lower extremities, and an atrial septal defect. Although the amount of amniotic fluid was norm...

journal_title：Fetal diagnosis and therapy

authors： Santolaya J,McCorquodale MM,Torres W,Meyer WJ,Gauthier D,Lemery D

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00