Relação entre a medida da translucência nucal no primeiro trimestre e a presença de marcadores ultrassonográficos para a Síndrome de Down no segundo trimestre da gestação / Second trimester soft markers: relation to first trimester nuchal translucency

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2011

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Genetic sonogram following first trimester combined screening appears to substantially increase detection rates for Down syndrome but it relies on the unproved assumption of independence between these tests. In this study we have investigated the relation of first trimester nuchal translucency to a series of secondtrimester soft markers. Nuchal translucency (NT) measurement in the first trimester was followed by second trimester scan (18-23w+6 days) including search for three categorical soft-markers (intracardiac echogenic foci, hyperechogenic bowel and structural defects) and measurements of nasal bone length, nuchal fold thickness, femur length, humerus length, renal pelvices diameter and prenasal thickness. All continuous variables were expressed in multiples of the medians for gestation (MoMs) and correlation coefficients between log-transformed NT and second trimester variables were calculated. In addition, frequencies of classical soft-markers in cases with increased NT were compared to those with normal NT, using MoMs cutoffs. In a dataset of 1970 cases, NT was significantly correlated (p<0.05) to all second trimester continuous variables, in particular to nuchal fold thickness (r=0.10). There was a higher frequency of cases with second trimester nuchal fold thickness above the 95th centile (10.7% versus 2.2%) and hyperechogenic bowel (2.4% versus 0.1%) in cases with increased NT. In conclusion, straightforward reassessment of risk using likelihood ratios derived from the classical genetic sonogram might lead to inaccurate estimates. Multivariate models using continuous second-trimester variables might be preferable in sequential screening strategies

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pré-natal down syndrome marcadores ultrassonográficos de aneuplodia nuchal translucency prenatal programas de rastreamento screening programs síndrome de down soft sonographic aneuploidy markers translucência nucal ultrasound ultrassonografia

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