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Chorioamnionitis echocardiography and ultrasound

Introduction

Overview

Overview

There are no ultrasound findings associated with chorioamnionitis. However, an ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications of chorioamnionitis, which include postpartum hemorrhage, pelvic abscesses, endomyometritis, intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia, respiratory distress syndrome, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Ultrasound

Ultrasound

There are no ultrasound findings associated with chorioamnionitis. However, an ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications of chorioamnionitis, which include:

Ultrasound image of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in transverse plane.
References

References

  1. ↑ Oba T, Hasegawa J, Sekizawa A (July 2017). “Postpartum ultrasound: postpartum assessment using ultrasonography”. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 30 (14): 1726–1729. doi:10.1080/14767058.2016.1223034. PMID 27578054.
  2. ↑ Cicchiello LA, Hamper UM, Scoutt LM (March 2011). “Ultrasound evaluation of gynecologic causes of pelvic pain”. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 38 (1): 85–114, viii. doi:10.1016/j.ogc.2011.02.005. PMID 21419329.
  3. ↑ Tabrizi PR, Obeid R, Cerrolaza JJ, Penn A, Mansoor A, Linguraru MG (July 2018). “Automatic Segmentation of Neonatal Ventricles from Cranial Ultrasound for Prediction of Intraventricular Hemorrhage Outcome”. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018: 3136–3139. doi:10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513097. PMID 30441059.
  4. ↑ Jung HN, Suh SI, Park A, Kim GH, Ryoo I (October 2019). “Early Prediction of Periventricular Leukomalacia Using Quantitative Texture Analysis of Serial Cranial Ultrasound Scans in Very Preterm Infants”. Ultrasound Med Biol. 45 (10): 2658–2665. doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.06.413. PMID 31327491.
  5. ↑ Gregorio-Hernández R, Arriaga-Redondo M, Pérez-Pérez A, Ramos-Navarro C, Sánchez-Luna M (January 2020). “Lung ultrasound in preterm infants with respiratory distress: experience in a neonatal intensive care unit”. Eur J Pediatr. 179 (1): 81–89. doi:10.1007/s00431-019-03470-0. PMID 31655870.
  6. ↑ Alonso-Ojembarrena A, Lubián-López SP (September 2019). “Lung ultrasound score as early predictor of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very low birth weight infants”. Pediatr Pulmonol. 54 (9): 1404–1409. doi:10.1002/ppul.24410. PMID 31216121.

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