Antenatal Diagnosis of Renal Tract Anomalies: Has it Increased the Sum of Human Happiness?
| Autor: | P. S. J. Malone |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Urinary system 030232 urology & nephrology Psychological intervention Ultrasonography Prenatal Screening programme 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy medicine Humans Urinary Tract media_common Gynecology Obstetrics business.industry Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Postnatal treatment Patient Acceptance of Health Care medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Parental anxiety Happiness Female Abnormality business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 89:155P-158P |
| ISSN: | 1758-1095 0141-0768 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/014107689608900312 |
| Popis: | When used as a screening procedure, ultrasound examination of the fetal urinary tract seldom leads to beneficial interventions. There is also a cost in terms of parental anxiety and unnecessary investigation and treatment. A formal screening programme would therefore be unjustified. However, screening of women for obstetric purposes will continue to reveal fetal abnormalities, and a strategy for dealing with these is needed. Antenatal treatments remain experimental; for most of the common conditions postnatal treatment has no urgency; and, in cases of minor abnormality detected by ultrasound, the best course may be to do nothing. |
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