An
ultrasound exam is a medical test that uses sound waves to look inside your body and see if there are any problems or detect any health conditions.
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Getting a series of
ultrasound exams as your pregnancy progresses will help your doctor interpret what, exactly, it means.
Limited ultrasound exams (known as FAST scans) are used by our emergency veterinarians to diagnose fluid accumulation and to assist in obtaining fluid and urine samples in pets.
In November, Brazilian researchers detected the Zika virus genome in amniotic fluid samples from two women whose fetuses were been diagnosed with microcephaly
by ultrasound exams, the Pan American Health Organization reported.
We
use ultrasound exams to assess the shape, size, tissue density, internal structure, and position of your pet's abdominal organs.
To tell which it is, vets rely on the absence of visible shunts during a
doppler ultrasound exam to rule out PSS and a liver biopsy to confirm PVH - MVD.
While these disorders are sometimes detected during
prenatal ultrasound exams, a definitive diagnosis is usually made after the baby is born.
She had just come from an endocrinologist's office where they discovered a small thyroid nodule during a
thyroid ultrasound exam.
I explained we follow many thyroid nodules with
serial ultrasound exams done at the hospital outpatient imaging center.
Ultrasound exams give the most accurate determination of the size of each heart chamber and permit measurement of the thickness of the heart walls.
Unfortunately, it is necessary to do exploratory surgery to get pancreatic samples, so it generally makes more sense to
consider ultrasound exam and to check the lab work once a week for two or three weeks prior to considering this, unless the patient seems to be getting worse or if there is significant pain.
X-rays and
ultrasound exams help determine the extent of your dog's problem and whether the tumor has spread to another area (metastatic cancer).
Imaged pregnant, elderly, infant, immobile, and ambulatory patients for various ultrasound exams
Evaluations of the liver and gall bladder, spleen, urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, genital system, vascular system and lymph nodes are part of our
routine ultrasound exam.
Ultrasound exams are notoriously inaccurate for predicting the weight of a baby and can be off by a pound or more in either direction.
Your doctor or midwife can identify body parts and is able to tell if your baby is head down by observing your belly and by placing a hand or two on it, even without
an ultrasound exam.
Diagnosis of either oligohydramnios or polyhydramnios can be made by
an ultrasound exam called an amniotic fluid index (or «AFI»), where the doctor measures the fluid pockets.
Many couples choose to use
an ultrasound exam to determine if their baby is a girl or a boy, unless you'd prefer to hear what the old wives» tales are about the sex of your baby.
Ultrasound exams can be done to find out many things about your pregnancy.
A new study finds no link between autism and number or duration of
ultrasound exams.
Some couples find that they benefit from going to prenatal visits together — especially the biggies like the first visit,
the ultrasound exam, and any time key test results will be revealed.
An ultrasound exam performed at this stage helps the doctor to check for complications like a low lying placenta, in addition to assessing the baby's position and health.
The amniotic fluid index (AFI) is
an ultrasound exam that measures the amount of amniotic fluid around your baby.
Ultrasound Exam: A test in which sound waves are used to examine internal structures.
A biophysical profile (BPP) is
an ultrasound exam that monitors the movement, body tone and breathing efforts of your baby.
This date is based on the LMP or
an ultrasound exam.
While a pregnancy due date calculator or
ultrasound exam can be used to determine your estimated due date, if neither of those are readily available, you can use Nagele's rule to calculate when your baby is due.
She accompanied them to a crisis pregnancy center, where she was given a referral for
an ultrasound exam of her uterus and the promise of help if she decided to carry her pregnancy to term.
If you go for
an ultrasound exam at this time, your babies» heart features are usually fully detectable.
Ten women underwent surgery based on
their ultrasound exams, with four having invasive ovarian cancers, two having ovarian tumors of low malignant potential, one having endometrial cancer, and three having benign ovarian tumors.
«With
an ultrasound exam, we are typically unable to see the most suspicious areas of the prostate so we end up sampling different parts of the prostate that statistically speaking are more likely to have cancer,» said Parsons, who is also an associate professor in the Department of Urology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Additionally, follow up appointments and
ultrasound exams with your doctor may be necessary to ensure complete vein removal.
The doctor may order additional diagnostic tests, such as a diagnostic mammogram,
an ultrasound exam, or a magnetic resonance imaging scan to look for possible tumors (1, 2).
Most multiple pregnancies are discovered during
an ultrasound exam.