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- Title
Clinical study of fetal neurobehavior by the KANET test.
- Authors
Moreira Neto, Raul; Porovic, Selma
- Abstract
Fetal neurology is evolving as an area of great interest in prenatal diagnosis and fetal medicine. The identification and diagnosis of brain damage prenatally has been a great challenge in obstetrics for many years. Investigations of fetal behavior in comparison with morphological studies led to the conclusion that fetal behavioral patterns directly reflect developmental and maturational processes of the fetal central nervous system (CNS). Four-dimensional (4D) ultrasound has greatly improved the assessment of the quality of the fetal spontaneous movements, and enabled a better evaluation of fetal behavior. The assessment of normal neurobehavioral development by 4D ultrasound provided the opportunity to investigate functional characteristics of the fetus that could predict neurological developmental dysfunction. Some studies have already been carried out to evaluate this new methodology in the observation of fetal behavior during different stages of gestation, in an attempt to better understand the relationships between the maturation of the CNS of the fetus and its implications on its behavior pattern. We present a review of literature on fetal behavior by 4D ultrasound.
- Subjects
NERVOUS system; FETAL development
- Publication
Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 6, p631
- ISSN
0300-5577
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jpm-2016-0414