fetal mr how i do it in clinical practice
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Fetal MR How I do it in clinical practice
M J WestonLeeds
Why do it?• Add diagnostic certainty to US findings
• Find additional anomalies
• Research
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
Cerebral MRI
T2 weighted
Other sequences
T2 T1 DWI
Change with time
24 weeks 36 weeks
Spina bifida
• MR is not a screening test
• All cases detected by US
• Confirmatory
• Assignment of level
• Visually very powerful for parents
Spinal cord
Conus Medullaris
Spina bifida
Head signs
Spina bifida
Sagittal
Aaronson OS et al. Radiology 2003; 227: 839‐843
US and MR are equally accurate at assigning level of lesion
Diastematomyelia
Split cord
Huge NTD on US
Visual impact of MRI
Caudal Regression Syndrome
Caudal regression
Head anomalies
• Commonest indication– Apparently isolated ventriculomegaly
• Establishing normal brain maturation
• Problems with counselling…
Unilateral hydrocephalus?• Near field reverberation
Hydrocephalus
Prognosis?
Ventricular bleed
Different sequences in bleed
But, postnatally…
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2008; 32: 188 – 198Good prognosis…
Schizencephaly
Artefact or schizencephaly?
Follow-up
Deep asymmetrical calcarine sulcus
Arachnoid cyst
Taiwan J Obstet Gynecol 2007; 46: 187
Prepontine arachnoid cyst
Death of co-twin
Obstet Gynecol 2011; 118: 928 – 940
Monochorionic – neurodevelopmental delay 26% of survivorsDichorionic ‐ 2%
2 weeks later
Microcephaly etc
Face and holoprosencephaly
Face and head
Facial cleft and no eyes
Normal
Sent for head but…
But also has small lungs
Problem solving
Fetal kidneys
Inclusion cyst
Cervical teratoma
Neck lymphangioma
Nasopharyngeal teratoma?
Focal bulge
What is this?
Co‐existant Mole
Retroplacental bleed
Intrapartum scar rupture
Conclusions
• Complimentary to US
• Added worth is less if expert US
• Prognostic difficulties
• Changing the role of the Radiologist