OBJECTIVES Z-scores for cardiac dimensions are well established in postnatal life, but have yet to be developed for fetal cardiac dimensions. These would be of real advantage to the clinician in accurately quantifying size and growth of cardiac dimensions and to the researcher by allowing mathematical comparison of growth in differing subgroups of a disease. The purpose of this observational st...

Owing to the inconsistent image quality existing in routine obstetric ultrasound (US) scans that leads to a large intraobserver and interobserver variability, the aim of this study is to develop a quality-assured, fully automated US fetal head measurement system. A texton-based fetal head segmentation is used as a prerequisite step to obtain the head region. Textons are calculated using a filte...

In clinical practice, the parturition date in bitches is calculated on the basis of the established ovulation date, using determination of the level of LH and P4. Additionally cytological examination of vaginal smears makes it possible to establish the onset of diestrus, from which the delivery occurs after about 57 days. The latest method used in bitches for this purpose is foetal biometry. Me...

We present the in utero appearances and postmortem radiographic findings of two sib fetuses, a male and a female, with features suggestive of kyphomelic dysplasia. The fetuses had severe bowing of the long bones, short, flared ribs, platyspondyly, metaphyseal flaring, skin dimpling, with normal external genitalia and karyotypes and a normal pregnancy. They were born to a mother with features of...

BACKGROUND Fetal growth is influenced by many factors such as race, socioeconomic status, genetics, geographical location, maternal diseases, and number of babies. Consequent upon these, fetal growth charts may vary from one location to another even within the same geographical entity. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to establish the fetal growth chart in antenatal women who had ultrasound ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to report the prevalence and associated findings of fetal ventriculomegaly between 11 + 0 and 13 + 6 gestational weeks and to evaluate a sonographic approach to classify first trimester ventriculomegaly in the standard axial plane used for biparietal diameter (BPD) measurement. METHODS The ratio between choroid plexus and lateral ventricle diameter (PDVDR),...

one of the major goals of antenatal care is estimation of gestational age.the most widely used parameters for evaluation of fetal growth are biparietal diameter (BPD),femoral length (FL) and adbominal circumference (AC).to determine the value of prenatal ultrasonographic scapula measurements for fetal growth and gesattional age a prospective ultrasonographic cross-sectional study was conducted ...

a true estimation of gestational age (ga) plays an important role in quality maternity care and scheduling the labor date. this study aimed to evaluate the normal fetal kidney length (kl) and its correlation with ga. a cross-sectional study on 92 pregnant women between 8th and 10th week of gestation with normal singleton pregnancy underwent standard ultrasound fetal biometry and kidney length m...