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Fetal MR How I do it in clinical practice M J Weston Leeds

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Fetal MR How I do it in clinical practice

M J WestonLeeds

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Why do it?• Add diagnostic certainty to US findings

• Find additional anomalies

• Research

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How is it done?

• Trickier than you think.• Fast acquisition times• Signal to noise problems• Risk to fetus

• T2 is mainstay• T1 useful for bowel and looking for fat or

haemorrhage

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Cerebral MRI

T2 weighted

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Other sequences

T2 T1 DWI

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Change with time

24 weeks 36 weeks

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Spina bifida

• MR is not a screening test

• All cases detected by US

• Confirmatory

• Assignment of level

• Visually very powerful for parents

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Spinal cord

Conus Medullaris

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Spina bifida

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Head signs

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Spina bifida

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Sagittal

Aaronson OS et al. Radiology 2003; 227: 839‐843

US and MR are equally accurate at assigning level of lesion

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Diastematomyelia

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Split cord

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Huge NTD on US

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Visual impact of MRI

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Caudal Regression Syndrome

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Caudal regression

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Head anomalies

• Commonest indication– Apparently isolated ventriculomegaly

• Establishing normal brain maturation

• Problems with counselling…

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Unilateral hydrocephalus?• Near field reverberation

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Hydrocephalus

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Prognosis?

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Ventricular bleed

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Different sequences in bleed

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But, postnatally…

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Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2008; 32: 188 – 198Good prognosis…

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Schizencephaly

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Artefact or schizencephaly?

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Follow-up

Deep asymmetrical calcarine sulcus

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Arachnoid cyst

Taiwan J Obstet Gynecol 2007; 46: 187

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Prepontine arachnoid cyst

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Death of co-twin

Obstet Gynecol 2011; 118: 928 – 940

Monochorionic – neurodevelopmental delay 26% of survivorsDichorionic ‐ 2%

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2 weeks later

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Microcephaly etc

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Face and holoprosencephaly

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Face and head

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Facial cleft and no eyes

Normal

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Sent for head but…

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But also has small lungs

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Problem solving

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Fetal kidneys

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Inclusion cyst

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Cervical teratoma

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Neck lymphangioma

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Nasopharyngeal teratoma?

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Focal bulge

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What is this?

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Co‐existant Mole

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Retroplacental bleed

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Intrapartum scar rupture

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Conclusions

• Complimentary to US

• Added worth is less if expert US

• Prognostic difficulties

• Changing the role of the Radiologist