Time to reconsider our approach to echogenic intracardiac focus and choroid plexus cysts
| Autor: | Michael Bethune |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Obstetrics and Gynecology Heart General Medicine Aneuploidy medicine.disease Ultrasonography Prenatal Surgery Fetal Heart Prenatal screening Echocardiography Predictive Value of Tests Pregnancy Choroid Plexus medicine Humans Anxiety Female Choroid plexus Radiology medicine.symptom business Echogenic intracardiac focus Choroid plexus cyst |
| Zdroj: | The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 48:137-141 |
| ISSN: | 1479-828X 0004-8666 |
| Popis: | Ultrasound soft markers are commonly reported at mid-trimester ultrasounds. Soft markers frequently arouse anxiety in the patient, her family, and the referring clinician. Recent publications have raised concerns that this anxiety may be unfounded. The significance of an echogenic intracardiac focus or choroid plexus cyst in particular is no longer certain. It may be time to discard these two markers; especially if they are reported in isolation and in a patient who is otherwise at low risk for aneuploidy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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