IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 43 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.12891/ceog2025.2016

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Original Research
Fetal ventriculomegalies during pregnancy course, outcome, and psychomotor development of born children
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1 Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Serbia
2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
3 Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Narodni front Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2016, 43(1), 63–69; https://doi.org/10.12891/ceog2025.2016
Published: 10 February 2016
Abstract

Purpose: The objectives of this study were as follows: to present the course and outcome of pregnancies complicated with fetal ventriculomegaly, determine the association between prenatal ultrasound diagnoses and definitive postnatal diagnosis or diagnoses after autopsy and additional analysis, and to monitor the psychomotor development of children born with ventriculomegaly. Materials and Methods: The survey was designed as retrospective study and included 62 pregnant women who were attending a regular ultrasound examinations at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Serbia, or patients who were referred from other institutions in Serbia. Results: Ventriculomegalies were divided into three groups: mild, moderate, and severe or hydrocephalus. The most common were severe ventriculomegalies, with 34 cases (55%). Of all pregnancies complicated with ventriculomegalies, 61% were terminated. Among those continued, 88% had normal psychomotor development. In 97% ultrasonographic diagnosis was confirmed. Conclusion: Majority of pregnancies complicated with ventriculomegaly were continued and most of the children born with anomalies had normal psychomotor development.
Keywords
Ventriculomegaly
Fetus
Psychomotor development
Outcome
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