Who requires the services of fetal medicine ?
Patients with
- Advanced maternal age
- Previous child with mental retardation, developmental delay or with malformation
- Previous child with chromosomal abnormality like Down Syndrome
- Previous child with metabolic disorder like Phenylketonuria
- Previous child with haematological disorder like Sickle cell anemia and Thalassemia
- Previous child with Neural tube defect
- Pregnancy with BOH
- Prenatal exposure to teratogenic drugs and infection
- Prenatally — anomaly diagnosed on scan
- Women with metabolic disorder like Diabetes and Hypothyroidism
- Women with any chronic medical disorder
Family history of chromosomal abnormality - Family history of Single gene defects
- Family history of Neural tube defects
- Family history of any other congenital structural abnormalities
- Twin or Multiple gestation
- Previous History of Preterm Delivery
Fetus is now considered as an individual and claims full consideration as an “unborn patient”.
Besides generalized management guidelines as in adult, each fetus demands individual evaluation towards disease process, course and Pathology
- Choroid Plexus Cyst
- Who is at Risk?
- Down Syndrome
- Thickened Nuchal Fold in Fetus
- Absent or Small Nasal Bone
- Echogenic intracardiac focus (EIF) in the fetal heart
- Cerebellar hypoplasia (CH) in Fetus
- Agenesis of Septum Pellucidum in Fetal Brain
- Ventriculomegaly in the Fetal Brain
- Mega Cisterna Magna – MCM