Re: Ultrasound readings, please help!!!!
From: Alexa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:14:25 -0500 (CDT)
At Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Wendy wrote:
>
Wendy,
Donīt worry, your U/S is quite normal. FL is fine and so is everything
else. I am no doctor but have studied a lot about this. In fact, there
is a ratio between expected FL and the U/S FL. If the result is 0.91 or
lower chances of downs are higher. In your case, this ratio result is
0.988.
So, donīt worry and sleep tight. Your chance of downs is very very
small (just by age), somewhere around 1/620.
Congrats,
Alexa C.
>At exactly 24 weeks 0 days I had an ultrasound taken and Iīm worried
>about the results. Iīd really appreciate your opinion on this matter.
>The results were:
>
>FL/BPD: 71%
>FL/AC: 21%
>HC/AC: 1.08
>CI: 76%
>BPD: 5.73 cm 23Weeks 4days
>OFD: 7.53 cm
>HC: 21.02 cm 23Weeks 1day
>AC: 20.08 19.21 19.21 19.50 cm 24Weeks 2days
>FL: 4.09 23Weeks 2 days
>FW: 631g (+/- 92g)
>
>Iīm worried about the small femur and that the dates vary so much,
>almost all of them are below my actual pregnancy time: 24 Weeks 0 Days.
>Am I in higher risk of having a child with downs syndrome? Iīm almost 33
>years old and have no family problems of this or any other kind (neither
>does my husband). Plus a have a normal 4 year old son. This time, it
>looks like weīre expecting a girl. Are girls at greater risk for down?
>My sonīs ultrasound at this same stage showed results very close to
>actual pregnancy stage and femur was bigger.
>
>Thankyou very much, I can hardly sleep!
>
>Sincerely yours,
>Wendy
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