Prenatal Diagnosis and Pregnancy Outcome

Dear Colleagues,

For the past 50 years, the use of ultrasound as a tool for antenatal care has become universal, displacing all other traditional pregnancy monitoring techniques.

The technological advancement of ultrasound machines has been rapid.

The latest applications, such as pulse and color Doppler, three and four-dimensional real time ultrasound, and elastography, can accurately depict embryological structures, placenta and fetal well-being. New modalities such as neurosonography can provide more specific information regarding fetal intracranial pathology. New genetic tests and techniques such as NIPD are increasingly used for the detection of chromosomal abnormalities.

The use of prenatal ultrasound screening is of the utmost importance for predicting great obstetrical syndromes such as premature labor, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, ischemic placental disease (IPD), placental location complications, and morbidly adherent placenta (MAP).

This Special Issue is aimed at providing a collection of articles pertaining to these technological developments as well as pregnancy outcomes and their impact regarding diagnosis, prediction and treatment of major pregnancy complications.

Dr. Sotirios Sotiriou

Guest Editor

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