Optic nerve sonography and ophthalmic artery Doppler velocimetry in healthy pregnant women: an Australian cohort study.

Purpose: Maternal ocular sonography offers a window into cerebrovascular and intracranial pressure changes in pregnancy. This study aimed to determine the Doppler velocimetric variables of the ophthalmic artery, and the mean diameter of the optic nerve sheath (ONSD), in an Australian cohort of healthy pregnant women.

Methods: A prospective observational cohort study of healthy women with uncomplicated singleton pregnancies in the third trimester was undertaken in a tertiary maternity service.

Outcomes following antenatal identification of hydrops fetalis: a single-centre experience from 2001 to 2012.

Objective: To describe the aetiologies and outcomes of pregnancies complicated by hydrops fetalis (HF).

Study Design: Case series of all pregnancies complicated by HF managed at The Royal Women's Hospital (RWH), Melbourne, Australia, between 2001 and 2012. Multiple pregnancies, and cases where antenatal care was not provided at RWH were excluded.

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy in Routine Clinical Practice.

Objectives: To assess the accuracy of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for sex chromosome aneuploidy (SCA) in routine clinical practice and to review counselling and sonographic issues arising in SCA cases.

Methods: Three specialist Australian obstetric ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis practices offering NIPT after 10 weeks' gestation participated in this study. NIPT was reported for chromosomes 21, 18, 13, X, and Y.

Chorionic villus sampling in the cell-free DNA aneuploidy screening era: careful selection criteria can maximise the clinical utility of screening and invasive testing.

Objectives: To quantify the impact of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening on chorionic villus sampling (CVS) test indications and outcomes in a tertiary maternity service.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of all CVS procedures performed for any indication on singleton pregnancies at The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, and at Women's Ultrasound Melbourne, Australia, between August 2008 and February 2015. Karyotypes were classified according to pathogenicity and detectability by standard cfDNA screening panels.

Women's opinions on being weighed at routine antenatal visits.

Objective: To assess the opinions of pregnant women regarding their weight gain and to assess the level of satisfaction and anxiety provoked by being weighed in clinic.

Design: Questionnaires were given to women participating in a randomised controlled trial comparing routine weighing in the antenatal clinic with standard care.

Setting: A tertiary hospital antenatal clinic in Melbourne, Australia.