Central nervous system biometry in fetuses with and without congenital heart diseases

Objective To compare the fetal brain structures assessed in routine sonographic scans during the second and third trimesters in fetuses with and without congenital heart disease (CHD). Methods This is a retrospective cross-sectional single-center study. We measured the head circumference (HC), the t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archives of gynecology and obstetrics 2022-12, Vol.306 (6), p.1885-1890
Hauptverfasser: Castellanos Gutierrez, Aleida Susana, Schmitz, Ralf, Hammer, Kerstin, Braun, Janina, Oelmeier, Kathrin, Köster, Helen Ann, Möllers, Mareike, Klockenbusch, Walter, Steinhard, Johannes, Kubiak, Karol
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Zusammenfassung:Objective To compare the fetal brain structures assessed in routine sonographic scans during the second and third trimesters in fetuses with and without congenital heart disease (CHD). Methods This is a retrospective cross-sectional single-center study. We measured the head circumference (HC), the transversal diameter of the cerebellum (TCD) and the sizes of the cisterna magna (CM), the cavum septi pellucidi (CSP) and the posterior ventricles (PV) between 20 and 41 weeks of gestation. We compared 160 fetuses with CHD (case group) to 160 fetuses of normal pregnancies (control group). Every patient was matched with a control, considering the gestational age at which the ultrasound was performed. We divided the CHD group into 3 subgroups: retrograde flow in the aortic arch (group 1), right heart anomaly with the antegrade flow in the aortic arch (group 2) and other CHDs with the antegrade flow in the aortic arch (group 3). Results The mean width of the PV was larger in fetuses of groups 1 and 3 in comparison to the control group ( P  
ISSN:1432-0711
0932-0067
1432-0711
DOI:10.1007/s00404-022-06484-6