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13 week Nuchal Translucency ScreeningFrom: Don (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:21:01 -0600
--Boundary_(ID_GSThEozKg1Oym6esm5w7Sg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hello, my name is Halley and I am 28 years old and pregnant with our second baby. Our first baby passed away a few hours after she was born at 38 weeks due to pulmonary atresia that was detected at the 18 week ultrasound. We had a 13 week Nuchal Translucency Ultrasound more for reassurance than anything else but it has actually had just the opposite effect. The ultrasound tech measured a nuchal fold of 2.0 to 2.3 then when the perinatologist measured, she got a reading of 3.1mm. Anything over 3mm is considered to put you at a higher risk for chromosome problems and heart defects. When we got home we found an article from the Lancet that studied 4000 chromosonally normal singletons with an increased NTT of >3.4mm, 96% were born healthy. Our perinatologist made this finding of 3.1mm sound so ominous when really we still have a less than 1% chance of having a baby with any chromosomal or other problems. Also, when such a minute measurement is being taken, even the placement of the calipers could result in very different readings. I would like to hear from other people or about patients that have been told this but went on to have healthy babies. Thanks! --Boundary_(ID_GSThEozKg1Oym6esm5w7Sg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C2415B.7674F140"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:DoNotRelyOnCSS/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DocumentKind>DocumentEmail</w:DocumentKind> <w:EnvelopeVis/> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin/> <w:Compatibility> <w:FootnoteLayoutLikeWW8/> <w:ShapeLayoutLikeWW8/> <w:AlignTablesRowByRow/> <w:ForgetLastTabAlignment/> <w:DoNotUseHTMLParagraphAutoSpacing/> <w:LayoutRawTableWidth/> <w:LayoutTableRowsApart/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} p.MsoAutoSig, li.MsoAutoSig, div.MsoAutoSig {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} span.EmailStyle15 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </head> <body lang=EN-CA style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hello, my name is Halley and I am 28 years old and pregnant with our second baby. Our first baby passed away a few hours after she was born at 38 weeks due to pulmonary atresia that was detected at the 18 week ultrasound.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We had a 13 week Nuchal Translucency Ultrasound more for reassurance than anything else but it has actually had just the opposite effect. The ultrasound tech measured a nuchal fold of 2.0 to 2.3 then when the perinatologist measured, she got a reading of 3.1mm. Anything over 3mm is considered to put you at a higher risk for chromosome problems and heart defects. When we got home we found an article from the Lancet that studied 4000 chromosonally normal singletons with an increased NTT of >3.4mm, 96% were born healthy. Our perinatologist made this finding of 3.1mm sound so ominous when really we still have a less than 1% chance of having a baby with any chromosomal or other problems. Also, when such a minute measurement is being taken, even the placement of the calipers could result in very different readings. I would like to hear from other people or about patients that have been told this but went on to have healthy babies. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> </div> </body>
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