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Fetal Neurosonography Extempore 2027

20 de marzo • 2027
7.ª edición anual

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Virtual Course: Fetal Neurosonography 2027

Join this fully virtual course to deepen your understanding of fetal brain assessment and neuroimaging. Designed for fetal medicine specialists, obstetricians, sonographers, radiologists, geneticists, and pediatric neurologists, the course offers evidence-based knowledge, practical clinical insights, and the latest advances in prenatal neurosonography.

Course highlights:
  • Live streaming sessions in English, Spanish, and Ukrainian
  • Access to recordings for 31 days
  • Interactive learning from leading professionals in the field
  • EACCME accreditation pending

Stay up to date, enhance your clinical expertise, and join a global community of fetal medicine professionals — all from the convenience of your own location.

Virtual Course: Fetal Neurosonography 2027


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SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR

  • Prof. Ritsuko Pooh
    MD, PhD, MSc, LLB, Fetal Diagnostic Center, Fetal Brain Center, CRIFM Prenatal Medical Clinic
    Osaka / Japan

SPEAKERS:

  • A/Prof. Anastasija Arechvo
    Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer at King’s College of London and Consultant in Fetal Medicine with special interest in Neurosonography at King's College Hospital
    London / UK
  • Dr. Eran Bornstein
    MD, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lenox Hill Hospital - Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York
    New York / USA
  • Prof. Rabih Chaoui
    Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Center of Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics
    Berlin / Germany
  • Dr. Frank Chervenak
    MD, System Chief, Ethics Northwell Health, Kaufman Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Associate Dean for International Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell
    New York / USA
  • Prof. Kyoko Itoh
    M.D., Ph.D. Department of Diagnostic Pathology Kyoto Chubu Medical Center Nantan City
    Kyoto / Japan
  • Prof. Gregor Kasprian
    Department of Biomed ical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy of the Medical University of Vienna
    Vienna / Austria
  • Dr. Antonio Mendez
    Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Mexican Institute of Social Security, "La Raza" Medical Center
    Mexico City / Mexico
  • Prof. Tomasz J. Nowakowski
    PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California,Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Anatomy, University of California, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research,
    San Francisco / USA
  • Prof. Ritsuko Pooh
    MD, PhD, MSc, LLB, Fetal Diagnostic Center, Fetal Brain Center, CRIFM Prenatal Medical Clinic
    Osaka / Japan
  • Prof. Liona Poon

    Professor, MD(Res), President elected of ISUOG, Cert RCOG, Academic Subspecialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at King's College London
    Hong-Kong / China
  • A/Prof. Magdalena Sanz Cortes
    MD, PhD, Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Fetal Surgeon,
    Chief of Fetal Surgery Division, Co-chair of Texas Children's Hospital Fetal Center, Director of International Women's Services, Director of Neurosonology Clinic,Texas Children's Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine
    Texas / USA
  • Prof. Shiri Shinar
    Associate Professor, Fetal Medicine Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Toronto
    Toronto / Canada
  • Dr. Tessa Homfray
    Medical Genetics Service, St George's University Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital London
    London / UK

LEARNING OBJECTIVES


  • Understand fetal brain development and malformations:

    • Describe the key stages of fetal brain development from the first to the second trimester
    • Identify developmental abnormalities affecting the commissures, midbrain, hindbrain and posterior fossa
    • Recognize the sonographic features and diagnostic challenges of agenesis and dysgenesis of the corpus callosum
    • Understand the development of the human cortex, including neuronal migration, cortical lamination and the subplate
  • Integrate imaging, genetics and fetal therapy:



    • Correlate fetal brain phenotypes with potential genetic and molecular causes
    • Understand how neuroimaging findings can guide genetic investigation and counselling
    • Evaluate the role of fetal therapy in individual cases and understand the factors influencing treatment decisions
    • Recognize the limitations of imaging and phenotype-based assessment when establishing a genetic diagnosis
  • Interpret fetal neuroimaging findings:


    • Apply advanced neurosonography and fetal MRI to the assessment of complex brain abnormalities
    • Interpret fetal MRI findings in the evaluation of the posterior fossa, cortical development and intracranial lesions
    • Recognize the imaging features of fetal intracranial haemorrhage, vascular injury, venous thrombosis and ischaemic brain injury
    • Identify key features of fetal intracranial tumours, including haemorrhage, mass effect and associated changes in surrounding brain tissue
    • Understand the principles and diagnostic value of transvaginal neurosonography in assessing cortical lamination and the subplate
  • Apply a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and counselling:

    • Integrate ultrasound, fetal MRI, genetic information and pathological findings in the assessment of fetal brain abnormalities
    • Understand how imaging findings can influence prenatal diagnosis, counselling and clinical management
    • Discuss the ethical considerations involved in counselling when significant fetal brain abnormalities are identified
    • Appreciate the fetus as an individual patient when considering diagnosis, treatment options and clinical decision-making

IN THE PROGRAM

Malformations of brain development: commissures, midbrain and hindbrain:

  • The developing brain between the first and second trimester
  • Commissural anomalies: dysgenesis, hypoplasia and the limits of measurement
  • The genetic architecture of agenesis of the corpus callosum
  • The posterior fossa on MRI: when imaging changes diagnosis and management
The fetus as a patient: genomics, therapy and the ethics of individual care:
  • From phenotype to genotype: what the image tells us to look for
  • Fetal therapy and the individual fetus: what can be offered, and to whom
  • What the fetal phenotype tells the geneticist - and what it cannot
  • The fetus as a patient: the ethics of counselling when the brain is involved
Reading the lesion: haemorrhage, vascular injury and tumour:

  • Fetal intracranial haemorrhage
  • Vascular insults and their sequelae: venous thrombosis, ischaemia and the brain afterwards
  • Fetal intracranial tumours: haemorrhage, mass effect and the brain around them
Are we all looking at the same lamination?

  • How the human cortex is built: progenitors, migration and the emergence of layers
  • Cortical lamination on fetal MRI: what the signal represents
  • What pathology tells us about the developing cortex
  • Lamination and subplate on transvaginal neurosonography
Register now to get
  • Speakers from the world's leading centers
  • Up-To-Date on topic
  • Full remote participation
  • EACCME pending
  • 7 hours of live-streaming
  • Access to the records for 31 days
  • Stream language: English, Spanish, Ukrainian
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