Three dimensional ultrasound volumetry of amniotic fluid in pregnant women.

Im, Moon Whan; Song, Kyung Eun; Kim, Hyun Mi; Kim, Jong Pil; Lee, Jeong Rye; Park, Jee Hyun; Hwang, Sung Ook; Noh, In Hwa; Koh, Seung Kwon; Lee, Byoung Ick; Lee, Woo Young; Choe, Wonsick

Original Article

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2001;44(12):2184-2189.
Published online December 1, 2001.

Three dimensional ultrasound volumetry of amniotic fluid in pregnant women.

Moon Whan Im, Kyung Eun Song, Hyun Mi Kim, Jong Pil Kim, Jeong Rye Lee, Jee Hyun Park, Sung Ook Hwang, In Hwa Noh, Seung Kwon Koh, Byoung Ick Lee, Woo Young Lee, Wonsick Choe

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Inha University.
²Department of Nuclear medicine, College of Medicine, Inha University.
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES
Our study was to measure how well semiquantitative three-dimensional ultrasonographic measures of amniotic fluid in the third trimester, to investigate the relationship between three-dimensional amniotic fluid volume and amniotic fluid index, two dimensional amniotic fluid volumes. METHODS: We compared amniotic fluid volume as measured by three-dimensional ultrasonographic techniques with amniotic fluid index including two dimensional amniotic fluid volume in 33 women during in the third trimester. RESULTS: There was highly significant linear correlations of three-dimensional amniotic fluid volumes with AFI (r=0.6898) and two dimensional amniotic fluid volume (r=0.7926). CONCLUSION: Three-dimensional ultrasonographic technology has clinical significance as a tool to measure amniotic fluid volume. There are highly significant correlations of three dimensional amniotic volumes with AFI and two dimensional volume.

Key Words: Three dimensional ultrasound, Amniotic fluid