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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Pregnancy |
Prominent septum cavum pellucidum01/17/2006 |
I recently had an ultrasound at 31 weeks. The radiologist said the fetus had a prominent septum cavum pellucidum. I am very worried, can this be a sign of brain damage or a marker for any condition?
There is no reported risk of a prominent septum cavum pellucidum (SCP) in fetal ultrasounds. The more reported finding is the fetal ultrasound literature is an absent SCP. In the adults a prominent SCP has been associated with akinetic mutism, a condition when the person is apparently awake, with eyes open, lies mute. immobile and unresponsive. I do want to stress there is no link between fetal ultrasound findings of SCP and akinetic mutism.
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Arthur T. Ollendorff, MD Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |
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