Ultrasound in Prenatal Diagnostics and Its Impact on the Epidemiology of Spina Bifida in a National Cohort from Denmark with a Comparison to Sweden.

Conclusions: Ultrasound screening has a major impact on the epidemiology of SB. The prenatal detection rate of SB was high, and most SB cases were isolated and had a normal karyotype. Among women with a prenatal fetal diagnosis of SB, 90% chose to have ToP. The incidence of newborns with SB was higher in Sweden than in DK.
PMID: 29487873 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Biomed Res - March 1, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Bodin CR, Rasmussen MM, Tabor A, Westbom L, Tiblad E, Ekelund CK, Wulff CB, Vogel I, Petersen OB Tags: Biomed Res Int Source Type: research