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Pregnancy Scans Questions
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Categories: Abnormalities Dates Placenta Results Sex |
Abnormalities
Q. What is a hemi-vertebra?Q. What are the implications if a scan sees the sac as too small or large?
Q. What is a uterine artery and notching?
Q. What causes pelvic renal dilation and what is the treatment?
Q. What does it mean if my scan showed the baby had an enlarged adrenal gland?
Q. What are choroid plexus cysts?
Q. What is polyhydramnios?
Q. Are clots on an otherwise normal scan dangerous?
Q. What is cystic adenomatous lung?
Q. At what ratio on a Nuchal fold scan would medical opinion consider it advisable to do an amniocentesis?
Q. What does it mean if the umbilical cord has only 2 vessels instead of three?
Q. What is this small cyst seen on my scan?
Q. What is velamentous cord insertion?
Q. What does it mean when a 7 week scan shows 2 sacs but only one with a heartbeat?
Q. What are exomphalos and gasroschisis?
Q. Are cord cysts dangerous?
Q. How will a septate uterus affect pregnancy?
Q. What causes a thin cord and will it happen again?
Q. What are amniotic bands?
Dates
Q. What is more accurate, my dates or the scan dates?Q. Should I worry that my scan dates are 2 weeks later than my period dates?
Q. Is it natural for the pregnancy sac to be 2 weeks older than the foetus?
Q. What is an early scan and why do I need one?
Q. How do dating scans work out the due date?
Placenta
Q. What does anterior mean?Q. How long is it safe to wait before delivering a baby if placenta previa is diagnosed?
Q. What are echogenic cotyledons?
Q. What are the chances of placenta previa occurring a second time?
Q. How is placenta previa graded?
Q. Will my placental tear cause brain damage to my baby?
Q. What is a low lying placenta?
Q. Is there any way to move a low lying placenta?
Q. What is a lateral placenta?
Q. What is chronic villitis and does it reoccur?
Q. What does it mean if the placenta is anterior?
Q. What causes placenta previa?
Results
Q. What is an echogenic focus?Q. What are the indicators for Down's Syndrome on ultrasound scans?
Q. Can scans accurately determine a baby’s birth weight?
Q. What do the readings and letters following my scan mean?
Q. What does echogenic mean?
Q. What does it mean if an early scan shows no yolk sac?
Q. Is it normal for the 20 week scan not to see everything?
Q. What is a VA measurement?
Q. What does 'no end diastolic flow' mean?
Q. How accurate are scans and can they miss anything important?
Q. Do frequent scans cause brain damage?
Q. Why are so few scans offered routinely?
Q. When are routine scans performed?
