obstetrics Flashcards
Placenta accreta
- Low lying placenta
- thin overlying myometrium
- vessels extend into bladder
MANAGEMENT
- Ask for growth charts
- need caesarian hysterectomy
- MRI pelvis to charactrise extent
- Delivery at tertiary referral
- Input from intervetional radiology
Retroverted utereus with caesarian scar ectopic
Spiel
- Transabdominal and TV images
- Uterus is retroverted
- Normal endometrium
KILLER
- Intrauterine pregnancy
- Inferior aspect of uterus
- above cervix
- Abnormal location
- corpus luteum cyst
MANAGEMENT
- Urgent referral to tertiary referral
- Gynaecology referral
Haemorrhagic cyst
Clinical history
- Acute abdominal pain, presented to accident and emergency
- TVUS
- Uterus is anteverte
KILLER
- Correlate endometrial stripe with gestation
- Likely secretory phase
- Cystic adnexal structure
- lace like fish net pattern
- Absent colour flow
- Thickened tissue around- ovarian torsion!!!!
MANAGEMENT
- Referral to tertiary centre for detorsion
Sequestration
- Hyperechoic mass
- SIDE
- SITE
- SIZE
- dipslaces heart
- compresses contralateral lung
- STOMACH BUBBLE LOCATION
- arterial thoracic vessel
DIFFERENTIAL
- CPAM
- sequestration
- diapragmatic hernia
Encephalocele
- Cystic structure in continuation with the posterior skull
- Disruption of posterior skull
- herniation of contents posteriorly
LOOK FOR
- ARPKD
- poyldactyly
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Multicystic dysplastic kidneys
- Cystic dilatations in the kidney
- Do not appear to communicate
- Kidney is enlarged
Differential
- Hydronephrosis
- PUJ
Management
- Referral to Tertiary
- nephrectomy
Meckel Gruber
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Enecephalocele-
- cystic structure at posterior aspect of cranium
- Absent posterior skull
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ARPKD
- Bilateral enlarged
- hyperechoic
- Polydactyly
Management
- 1/4 recurrence
- autosomal recessive
- POLYDACTYLY
- Look at hands
- look at kidneys
Omphalocele
- Well defined
- Anterior abdomen
- ? cord insertion
- Contents
- liver
- bowel
Management
- Tertiary referral
- karyotyping
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Cervical incompetence
- <25mm
- Bulging pattern T→Y→V→U→bulging
Management
- Cerclarge
- Progesterone pessary
Placenta Previa/low lying
- <25 mm from internal os
DO
- TV scan with empty bladder
- Vasa previa – Doppler on internal os
Management
- F/U 32 weeks
vasa praevia
- Vessels crossing the internal os
Look for
- Low lying placenta
- Velamentous insertion
- Succenturiate lobe
Management
- C-section delivery before onset of labour.
- Anterior previa important as CS will cross
- Velamentous – 90%
- Succenturiate – 10%
Placental sonolucencies
extensive >3
- > 3 lucencies in placenta
Looking for
- IUGR
- Oligohydramnios
- Vascular flow
- consider placenta accreta
Management
- F/U scans for IUGR/oligo
Placental chorioangioma
- Low echogenic placental lesion
- well defined
- internal doppler flow
- >5cm or multiple ↑complication
Follow up
HIP
- Hydrops
- IUGR
- Polyhydramnios
Single umbilical cord
Look for
- Other signs aneuploidy
- Cardiac/renal anomaly
- IUGR
Management
- Isolated 3rd trimester USS for IUGR
- Non-isolated 3° referral & karyotyping
POLYHYDRAMNIOS
DEFINITION
- AFI > 24 cm
- MVP > 8 cm
- MVP > 7 cm twins
CAUSES
- Idiopathic
- Maternal
- GDM
- HTN/preeclampsia
- CCF
- Fetal
- CNS – can’t drink
- Obs to GI tract
- Cardiac anomaly
- Skeletal dysplasia
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LOOK FOR
- IUGR = bad outcome
- Face anomalies
- GI obstruction
- Presence of stomach
- CHD
- Limbs
- ↑AC for diabetic baby
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Management
- Tertiary referral
- amnioreduction
OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS
Spiel- The Paucity of amniotic fluid makes interpretation difficult.
DEFINTION
- AFI < 5 cm
- MVP < 2 cm
- MVP < 3 cm twins
CAUSE
- -Demise
- -Renal abnormality
- -IUGR
- -PROM – most common
- -Post-dates
- -Chromosomal
- -Placental insufficiency
LOOK FOR
- -Ask about any PV d/c
- -Aneuploidy markers
- -Renal tract obstruction -Renal agenesis
MANAGEMENT
- Tertiary referral ±karyotype
HYDROPHS
There is fluid in 1 cavity and I am looking for fluid in other compartments for evidence of hydrops
- Hydrop
- ≥2 cavities
- pericardial
- pleural
- ascites
- skin oedema
CAUSES
- Immune hydrops
- Rh
- Non-immune hydrops
- Mass – chest most commonneu
- Aploidy
- Anaemia
- AVM
- Cardiac anomaly
- TORCH
LOOK FOR CAUSE
- MCA PSV
MANAGEMENT
- Tertiary referral
- Exencephaly (brain left)
- Anencephaly (no brain)
- Acrania (entire cranium absent)
spiel-
- Genetic counselling
- MEGA FOLATE
- next pregnancy as at ↑risk of all neural tube defects.
ASSOCIATIONS
Neural tube defects
LOOK FOR
- Other neural tube defects
- Clenched hands
MANAGEMENT
- Incompatible with life
- Offer termination.
- Genetic counselling
- MEGA FOLATE in next pregnancy
- ↑risk of all neural tube defects.
Holoprosencephaly
alobar/semilobar /lobar
CAUSE
- T13
- Multiple facial anomalies
LOOK FOR
- Proboscis
- Cyclops
- Hypoplastic L heart
- Other anomalies
- rockerbottom feet
MANAGEMENT
- Tertiary referral ±karyotyping
- Usually lethal
SPIEL
Genetic counselling and MEGA FOLATE in next pregnancy as at ↑risk of all neural tube defects.
HYDRANCEPHALY
Falx present cf holoprosencephaly
No rind of brain cf aqueduct stenosis
FINDINGS
- Falx present cf holoprosencephaly
- No rind of brain cf aqueduct stenosis
ASSOCIATIONS
- TORCH
MANAGEMENT
- Tertiary referral
- -TORCH screen
- ±karyotyping
- Poor prognosis
AQUEDUCT STENOSIS
CAUSES
- X-linked hydrocephalus
- -TORCH
- -Dandy-Walker
- -Chiari II
- -Agenesis CC
- -VACTERL
LOOK FOR
- Clenched hands for X-linked
MANAGEMENT
- Tertiary referral
- TORCH screen ±karyotyping
- Poor prognosis
COMPLICATIONS
- Birth issues due to dystocia of the head ↑HC
Abnormal cavum septum pellucidum
- Holoprosencephaly
- Agenesis of SP
- Agenesis of CC
LOOK FOR
- -Schizencephaly
- -Other neuro defects
MANAGEMENT
- Tertiary referral
- Variable outcome
VENTRICULOMEGALY
SPIEL
- Scan in real-time for intracranial abnormalities.
- In particular cerebellum shape and absent CC.
- Review 1st trimester screening results for aneuploidy risk and TORCH infections.
DEFINITION
- Mild > 10 mm
- Severe > 15 mm
ASS./CAUSE
- -Isolated
- -Aneuploidy
- -Agenesis of CC
- -Chiari II
- -Encephalomalacia
LOOK FOR
- Other signs of aneuploidy
- lemon shaped skull
- banana cerebellum
- Absent CC
- Myelomeningocele
MANAGEMENT
- -Tertiary referral
- ±Karyotype
- -TORCH screen
- ±MRI
SPIEL
Scan in real-time for intracranial abnormalities. In particular cerebellum shape and absent CC. Review 1st trimester screening results for aneuploidy risk and TORCH infections.
CHOROID PLEXUS CYST
SPIEL
- May be seen in isolation.
- Correlate with FTS results.
- Careful examination for other signs of aneuploidy in particular T18;
- clenched hands
- IUGR.
- If isolated nil further.
- Aneuploidy
- -T18 in particular
- -T21 with other soft signs
LOOKING FOR
- IUGR
- strawberry head
- cardiac defects
- Clenched hands
- Other signs of aneuploidy
MANAGEMENT
- Isolated – nil
- Associated – tertiary referral with view to karyotyping