Uitrasonographic diagnosis of horseshoe kidney of foetus / 中国基层医药

Objective To explore the horseshoe kidney of prenatal ultrasonography for detecting birth defects.Methods A total of 3260 women during 22～42 gestational weeks underwent real-time color Doppler ultrasongraphy to find out fetal mati kidney.All the cases were tracked within two month after delivery.Results In all 3260 pregnant women,104 cases were diagnosed on ultrasonography of 100%accordance with clinical diagnosis.Conclusions A systemic prenatal ultrasonographic examination in the second-trimester pregnancy is important for prenatal diagnosis of congenital malformations,which play a very significant role in decreasing fetal birth defects and improving new born population quality.