Re: Elevated AFP

From: DoctorJoe@aol.com
Mon Oct 9 09:17:24 1995


<<only a 2-fold increase in IUFD risk - most of which was identifiable based on very poor fetal growth - thus there is no appropriate intervention in the anatomically normal fetus with an elevated MSAFP.>>

So I like to follow elevated MSAFPs with serial sonography looking for fetal growth retardation. I probably do more NSTs in the 3rd trimester, but I don't know if that's very helpful.

doctorjoe@aol.com "All things are connected. Joseph Pastorek, MD Some things are just more Department of OB-GYN connected than others." LSU Medical Center - Dirk Gently New Orleans, LA U.S.A.





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