How many pregnant women's ultrasound showed ecogenic bowels, and then delivered a downs syndrome baby?
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Echogenic/hyperechoic bowel. The chance of identifying echogenic or hyperechoic bowel antenatally is calculated to be 1 in 200 mid-trimester fetuses. The bowel is thought to be echogenic when its echogenicity is similar to that of the iliac bones. This finding may be associated with an intra-amniotic hemorrhage, severe uteroplacental insufficiency, cystic fibrosis, and chromosomal defects. In 1994, Bromley and others[10] reported that approximately 12.5% of fetuses with trisomy 21 had echogenic bowel. Dicke and Crane[11] in 1992 and Vintzileos and Egan[12] in 1995 reported the incidence of echogenic bowel to be approximately 1% in infants with Down syndrome compared with 0.2% in infants without Down syndrome.
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