This course is dedicated for specialists in feto-maternal medicine interested in fetal ultrasound. Modern prenatal diagnosis relies on high resolution ultrasound and the detection of details in addition to the knowledge on large number of fetal diseases and syndromes. This course has two parts, the morning part will be discussing the first trimester ultrasound and the afternoon part will pick up single anomalies’ groups in 2nd and 3rd trimester and discuss each of these in details.
To review the actual up-to-date knowledge on first trimester ultrasound beyond nuchal translucency
To understand the typical signs of facial anomalies, skeletal dysplasia, open spina bifida, aneuploidies and cardiac anomalies in the first trimester fetus
To provide knowledge on the big potential of the advent of scan before 11 weeks as well as the use of 3D ultrasound in early gestation
To review fetal neurosonography knowledge as the differential diagnoses of ventriculomegaly in 2nd trimester fetus and the intracerebral hints of syndromic conditions
To understand the differential diagnosis of the typical abdominal anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract and renal anomalies
To provide actual information of the diagnostic approach once a cardiac anomaly is detected
To demonstrate the differential diagnoses in the presence of cardiac tumors in the fetus
Doctor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Center of Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics, Berlin / Germany
Speakers
Prof. Bernard Benoit
Professor of Obstetric and Gynecology in the University Hospital of Nice, head of Ultrasound department in Ob/Gyn Unit at Princess Grace Hospital, Nice / France
Prof. Alfred Abuhamad
Professor and Chairman for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship program at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia / USA
Prof. Rabih Chaoui
Doctor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Center of Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics, Berlin / Germany