Re: US for OB/Gyn
From: sharma nabakanta (sharma_nabakanta@yahoo.com)
Fri Jun 16 06:10:07 2006
Thanks for the article I am an Indian Gynaecologist
Yours
Sharma
--- bouthina ibrahim <bouthina_ibrahim@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> thank you muchabout screening for NFnd MRscreeningin
> first trimeser for detectionT18 AND21
> James Smeltzer <James.Smeltzer@wellstar.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> Check out the latest issue of US in OB/Gyn:
>
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jws/uog/2006/00000027/00000006
>
> The thing I find most intriguing is the terrific
> tying together of the
> heart and nuchal lucency observations in Down
> Syndrome:
>
> Devore has seen a large right atrium in about 85
> percent of Down
> Syndrome babies (pers comm).
>
> Now Falcon & al from nicolaides group finds TR in
> half the 10 to 13
> week fetuses with Down Syndrome and correlates this
> finding with nuchal
> lucency in normal fetuses. The last finding diluted
> the power of the
> early fetal echo to independently detect Down
> syndrome, but it goes a
> long way to putting things together in the findings
> with this entity.
>
> Jim
>
> James S. Smeltzer, MD, FACOG, SMFM
> Consultant, Maternal Fetal Medicine
> Wellstar Physicians' Group
> Northwest Women's Care
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> Marietta GA 30060
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