Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the association of aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) with genetic abnormalities and postnatal symptomatology, by comparing isolated and non-isolated ARSA cases.
Methods: Retrospective, descriptive and comparative study involving fetuses diagnosed with ARSA during routine fetal ultrasound scans, between 19 and 40 weeks, in a tertiary referral university hospital in Barcelona from January 2007 to December 2023.
Results: Out of 154 fetuses diagnosed with ARSA, 75.
Research Question: How does first-trimester aneuploidy screening perform in pregnancies achieved through IVF with preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) in a medical setting?
Design: This retrospective cohort study was undertaken in a single tertiary care centre between January 2013 and June 2022. In total, 20,237 women had prenatal follow-up at the study centre and were included in the study. The women were divided into three groups: singleton pregnancies conceived through the transfer of a PGT-A-screened euploid embryo (n = 510); singleton pregnancies conceived through IVF without PGT-A (n = 3291); and singleton pregnancies conceived naturally (n = 16,436).
Background: Fetal cardiology has shown a rapid development in the past decades. Fetal echocardiography is not only used for the detection of structural anomalies but also to assess fetal cardiac function. Assessment of the fetal cardiac function is performed mostly in the second and third trimesters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To examine the external validity of the new Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) competing-risks model for prediction in midgestation of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates.
Methods: This was a single-center prospective cohort study of 25 484 women with a singleton pregnancy undergoing routine ultrasound examination at 19 + 0 to 23 + 6 weeks' gestation. The FMF competing-risks model for the prediction of SGA combining maternal factors and midgestation estimated fetal weight by ultrasound scan (EFW) and uterine artery pulsatility index (UtA-PI) was used to calculate risks for different cut-offs of birth-weight percentile and gestational age at delivery.
We evaluated the obstetrical outcomes, ultrasonographic characteristics, and final diagnosis in pregnancies with fetal megacystis (FM). We evaluated the obstetrical outcomes and associated structural abnormalities of fetuses with FM detected between FM between 2000 and 2021. 17 FM were diagnosed, 16 had follow up.
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