Ultrasound measurement of placental thickness to detect pregnancies affected by homozygous α-thalassaemia-1

EARLY ULTRASOUND PREDICTION OF PREGNANCI

EARLY ULTRASOUND PREDICTION OF PREGNANCIES AFFECTED BY HOMOZYGOUS α-THALASSAEMIA-1

✍ YUNG HANG LAM; ARABINDA GHOSH; MARY HOI YIN TANG; CHIN PENG LEE; SAI YUEN SIN 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 185 KB

Homozygous -thalassaemia-1 is conventionally diagnosed by invasive testing on all at-risk pregnancies. We evaluated the diagnostic efficacy of non-invasive abdominal ultrasonographic cardiothoracic ratio measurement in 62 pregnancies at 13-14 weeks and 75 pregnancies at 17-18 weeks. This performed b