[Group counselling for the second trimester ultrasound: can group counselling be an alternative for individual counselling?].

Objective: To compare group counselling to individual counselling with respect to the second trimester ultrasound.

Design: A prospective cohort study at two hospitals.

Method: At one hospital, 100 pregnant women were counselled on the risks and benefits of the second trimester ultrasound in groups of up to 15 patients.

Mild pyelectasis diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound is not a predictor of urinary tract morbidity in childhood.

Objectives: To determine whether children with prenatally diagnosed mild pyelectasis have more urinary tract morbidity during childhood than children without this finding.

Methods: Case-control study in children with pyelectasis (anteroposterior diameter of the fetal renal pelvis of 5-10 mm). A validated questionnaire was sent to the parents of 208 cases and 416 matched controls.