Postnatal Managemant of Prenetal Cardiac Echogenic Foci in Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Postnatal Managemant of Prenetal Cardiac Echogenic Foci in Hillel Yaffe

Cardiac echogenic foci are common finding on prenatal follow-up. At hillel Yaffe medical center a post natal echography is performed to all newborns with prenatal cardiac echogenic foci. Reviewing the data collected until now may reduce the need for poist natal echography.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Prenatal Diagnosis
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: No intervension

Detailed Description

Cardiac echogenic foci are common finding on prenatal follow-up. At hillel Yaffe medical center a post natal echography is performed to all newborns with prenatal cardiac echogenic foci. The investigator will review all echographies performed in the last ten years. Reviewing the data collected until now may reduce the need for poist natal echography.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 120

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Israel
  • Hadera
    • H̱adera, Hadera, Israel, 38100
      • Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: No older than 2 weeks (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Newborn infants at hillle Yaffe medical center during 10 years: 2010-2019

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Newborns who had a cardiac echogenic focus during prenatal pollow-up.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Newborns who did not had postnatal echocardiography due to technical reasons.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Retrospective

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Prenetal cardiac echogenic focus; Newborn infants who had prenatal cardiac echogenic focus	Other: No intervension; There is intervention at all.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Any sonographic cardiac pathologic finding exists	Any sonographic cardiac pathologic finding exists, as defined by the cardiologist who performs the postnatal echocardiography.	2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Shakoor S, Ismail H, Munim S. Intracardiac echogenic focus and fetal outcome - review of cases from a tertiary care centre in Karachi, Pakistan. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2013 Jan;26(1):2-4. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2012.703724. Epub 2012 Jul 13.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 10, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): February 11, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 17, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 16, 2021
• Last Verified: August 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: cardiac echogenic focus
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: 0140-19-HYMC

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No
• IPD Plan Description: Will not be shared

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No