title: [Neonatal outcome of fetal hyperechogenic bowel].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Echogenic bowel (EB) represents 1 % of pregnancy and is a risk factor of fetal pathology (infection, cystic fibrosis, aneuploidy). The aim of our study was to determine the fetuses' outcomes with isolated EB.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective study of all patients who presented singleton gestations with a fetal isolated echogenic bowel between 2004 and 2011 in two prenatal diagnosis centers. Search of aneuploidy, infection and cystic fibrosis was systematically proposed as well as an ultrasound monitoring.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On 109 fetus addressed for isolate echogenic bowel five had other signs associated and 74 had a real isolated echogenic bowel (without dilatation, calcification, intrauterine growth restriction). In 30 cases, the EB was not found. Eighty-five percent of the patients had in the first trimester a screening for trisomy 21. None fetus with isolated EB had trisomy, infection or cystic fibrosis. One fetus died in utero and one newborn died of a metabolic disease without digestive repercussions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The risk of trisomy 21 and the risk to have a serious disease appear low for the fetus with EB. It does not seem necessary to propose a systematic amniocentesis in case of isolated echogenic bowel.
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hospices civils de Lyon, hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, 104, grande rue de la Croix-Rousse, 69004 Lyon cedex 04, France. Electronic address: laurinemaillet@gmail.com.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maillet
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hospices civils de Lyon, hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, 104, grande rue de la Croix-Rousse, 69004 Lyon cedex 04, France; Université Claude-Bernard - Lyon 1, 8, avenue Rockefeller, 69373 Lyon cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Rudigoz
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hospices civils de Lyon, hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, 104, grande rue de la Croix-Rousse, 69004 Lyon cedex 04, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buffin
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hospices civils de Lyon, hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfants, 59, boulevard Pinel, 69500 Bron, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Massardier
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hospices civils de Lyon, hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfants, 59, boulevard Pinel, 69500 Bron, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaucherand
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, hospices civils de Lyon, hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, 104, grande rue de la Croix-Rousse, 69004 Lyon cedex 04, France; Inserm U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, 18, avenue Doyen-Lepine, 69500 Bron, France; UMR-S 846, université Lyon 1, 69003 Lyon, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huissoud
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000649:Amniocentesis; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D058535:Echogenic Bowel / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal
keywords: Aneuploidy; Aneuploïdie; Cystic fibrosis; Fetal ultrasound; Hyperechogenic fetal bowel; Intestin hyperéchogène; Mucoviscidose; Échographie fœtale
vernacular_title: Devenir néonatal des fœtus présentant un intestin hyperéchogène.