Fetal Biometry Flashcards
(36 cards)
Menstrual Age aka
Gestational Age
1 reason 1st trimester bleed
Subchorionic hemorrhage/implantation bleed
Fetal Age aka
Conceptual Age
Conception
2 days after ovulation
Most accurate meas GA
CRL
Viability age
24 weeks
YS seen when GS meas
> 8mm
YS function
Provide nutrients from trophoblast to embryo
Forms primitive gut
Vitellines arteries & veins
Produces primordial germ cell
Yolk Sac
< 6mm, not assoc with gest age
YS attached to embryo via yolk stalk
Only see 2nd YS on US
Abnormal YS > 8mm, solid, echogenic lumen, irreg walls
YS resorbs
Week 12
Fail to see YS when MSD >____mm = abnormal
12 mm
Poor prognostic indicators
CRL without HR. CRL > 7 mm without HR indicates demise
Low HR < 90 bpm
Abnl YS: irreg walls, Echogenic, > 8mm
Discordant Sac Size: GS vs CRL. GS > 25 mm without embryo = failed pg
Fetal demise US
Huge sac, hetero embryo
MSD
Earliest measurement. < 5 weeks Low accuracy +- 2-3 wks Seen when hCg > 500mIu/ml MSD=(L+W+AP)3 MSD+4= Age
Double sac sign
Decidua capsularis w/ chorionic villi & decidua vera
Anembryonic pregnancy / blighted ovum
GS > 25 mm & no embryo
CRL
Most accurate
+- 5 days
ID 5.5 weeks
Less accurate > 12 wks
Rhombencephalon / Primitive Hind Brain
8-11 weeks
Cystic area in head
Should ID embryo when GS >
16 mm
BPD
+- 11 days @ 17-26 weeks
+- 3 wks in third tri
Meas outer to inner, perpendicular to falx, meas through thalamus
Thalamus & CSP are landmarks
Oxycephaly
Top of skull is pointy
Brachycephalic
Rounded short wider head. Over estimates GA
Dolicephalic
Flat long narrow head. Under estimates fetal age.
Head circumference
At BPD level
Trace outer edge of calvarium
HC= (BPD+OFD)X1.57