Clinically Relevant Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnosis of Umbilical Cord Pathology.

ABSTRACT: Umbilical cord abnormalities are not rare, and are often associated with structural or chromosomal abnormalities, fetal intrauterine growth restriction, and poor pregnancy outcomes; the latter can be a result of prematurity, placentation deficiency or, implicitly, an increased index of cesarean delivery due to the presence of fetal distress, higher admission to neonatal intensive care, and increased prenatal mortality rates. Even if the incidence of velamentous insertion, vasa praevia and umbilical knots is low, these pathologies increase the fetal morbidity and mortality prenatally and intrapartum. There is a vast heterogeneity among societies' guidelines regarding the umbilical cord examination. We consider the mandatory introduction of placental cord insertion examination in the first a

SUBMITTER: Bohiltea RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8871173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature