Postmortem Assessment of Isolated Congenital Heart Defects Remains Essential Following Termination of Pregnancy.

Objectives: To investigate the correlation between prenatal ultrasound (US) and autopsy findings in pregnancies terminated due to isolated congenital heart defects (CHDs), including CHDs associated with heterotaxy syndrome.

Materials And Methods: The material consists of 67 fetuses with prenatally detected isolated CHDs or CHDs associated with heterotaxy syndrome at a tertiary center in Norway between 1985 and 2014. The main CHDs were categorized into subdiagnoses of CHDs in accordance with ICD-10.

Autopsy Findings of Central Nervous System Anomalies in Intact Fetuses Following Termination of Pregnancy After Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis.

Objectives: Central nervous system (CNS) anomalies are the second most frequent category of congenital anomalies after congenital heart defects (CHDs). In this study, the aim was to investigate the distribution of different CNS anomalies with associated anomalies and karyotype in a fetal autopsy population of terminated pregnancies over a 30-year period and to correlate the ultrasonographic diagnoses of CNS anomalies with autopsy findings.

Materials And Methods: This study includes 420 intact fetuses with CNS anomalies terminated at gestational ages 11 to 33 over a 30-year period from 1985 to 2014.

Variability Over Time of Normal-Sized Fetal Renal Pelvis During the Second Trimester Scan.

Purpose: To investigate the variability of the normal-sized fetal renal pelvis (≤5 mm) over time and to analyze repeatability of measurements.

Materials And Methods: 98 fetal renal pelvises and 49 fetal urinary bladders were analyzed at a gestational age of 17-20 weeks at St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.