title: Congenital hydrocephalus in two pregnancies following the birth of a child with a neural tube defect: aetiology and management.
abstract: A family is described with congenital hydrocephalus occurring in two pregnancies following the birth of a child with a neural tube defect (NTD). Prenatal diagnosis of hydrocephalus at mid-gestation was achieved by ultrasonography. The increased frequency of hydrocephalus among sibs of probands with a NTD and vice versa suggests that, following the birth of a child with either malformations, subsequent pregnancies should be monitored at mid-gestation by amniotic fluid AFP and serial ultrasound examination.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000235:genetics*; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis