{"id":71,"date":"2010-01-31T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-01-31T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:20:44","slug":"q-echogenic-bowels-and-new-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/01\/31\/q-echogenic-bowels-and-new-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Echogenic bowels and new babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/bob_phillips.allmail.net\/Echogenic%20CF%20Graph.png\" alt=\"Bias plot\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\" \/>It was a vogue around the start of regular antenatal ultrasound scanning to note everything, associate wildly and some up with &#8216;antenatal markers of disease&#8217;, as I recollect. Some of these things turned out to be quite useful (nose bones, for instance, or their absence) and others still confuse me &#8230; like the &#8216;echogenic focus of bowel&#8217;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What is the value of such a finding, and what should it prompt the paediatrician and obstetrician to do for the baby, before or after birth? Fortunately for Archi, a team from North Middlesex (UK) are trying to answer for us. But is there any experience of different approaches out there?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a vogue around the start of regular antenatal ultrasound scanning to note everything, associate wildly and some up with &#8216;antenatal markers of disease&#8217;, as I recollect. Some of these things turned out to be quite useful (nose bones, for instance, or their absence) and others still confuse me &#8230; like the &#8216;echogenic focus [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/01\/31\/q-echogenic-bowels-and-new-babies\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,81,1554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cf","category-diagnostics","category-neonates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}