Predicting the Difficult Neonatal Airway in Fetuses With Micrognathia, Oropharyngeal or Neck Mass Lesions: Two-Center Experience With Fetal MRI.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Neonatal airway compromise requiring intubation, due to micrognathia or a mass lesion obstructing the fetal airway, remains difficult but important to predict prenatally. We aimed to validate MR predictors of difficult neonatal airway (DNA) in a multicentre retrospective cohort of fetuses with micrognathia and oropharyngeal/neck masses.

Method

The radiology databases of two large Australian maternal-fetal medicine centers were searched for subjects meeting inclusion criteria: Pregnancies of > 18 weeks' gestation evaluated with prenatal ultrasound and MRI between 2007 and 2022 where either fetal micrognathia or a fetal cervical, oral or oropharyngeal mass was identified on prenatal ultrasound and MRI, and details of delivery/postnatal course were available including

SUBMITTER: Goergen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11628208 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature