NCT02487641

Obese Pregnant Women: Optimizing Fetal Ultrasound

Obese Pregnant Women: Optimizing Mid-trimester Fetal Ultrasound for Risk Estimation During Pregnancy and Childhood

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 180 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Holbaek Sygehus · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aim to evaluate the quality of fetal ultrasound in obese pregnant women. The hypotheses is that an early ultrasound will improve the quality of the ultrasound in obese.

Detailed description

Ultrasound examination for fetal anomaly is especially challenging in obese gravida. The foetus is more likely to have congenital anomalies and imaging in these patients is technically more difficult. The investigators hypotheses that an earlier ultrasound with alternative technics will improve the quality and thereby improve the identification of anomalies. By using transvaginal ultrasound and abdominal ultrasound at the window just above the symphysis, were the subcutaneous fat is known to be thinner, the investigators hope to achieve a better overview. This will be done by evaluating fetal ultrasound at three different gestational ages (GA); GA 13, 15 and 21 weeks.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Fetal Malformation

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2015-07-01
• Last updated: 2015-11-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark