Prenatal sonographic detection of birth defects in 18 hospitals from South America.

CAMPAÑA H1, ERMINI M, AIELLO HA, KRUPITZKI H, CASTILLA EE, LÓPEZ-CAMELO JS; LATIN AMERICAN COLLABORATIVE STUDY OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS STUDY GROUP.

JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE.

AMER INST ULTRASOUND MEDICINE

Año: 2010 vol. 29 p. 203 - 212

0278-4297

Abstract OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of prenatal sonographic diagnosis of birth defects and the gestational age at detection according to the health insurance schemes of mothers in 450 malformed neonates from 18 South American hospitals on the basis of prenatal sonographic records. METHODS: Between July 2000 and December 2003, 18 hospitals included in the Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (13 from Argentina [8 public and 5 nonpublic], 3 from Brazil [2 public and 1 nonpublic], 1 from Chile [nonpublic], and 1 from Venezuela [public]) voluntarily participated in this prospective observational study, recording fetuses with sonographically detected malformations. Prenatal sonographic descriptions of anomalies were compared with those recorded at birth.