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Indications for neurosonography

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024

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Indications for neurosonography are:

Hydrocephalus (enlargement of the head).
Intracranial hematoma.
Damage to the brain as a result of hypoxemia.
Meningocele and other congenital anomalies.
Convulsive syndrome.
Too small a head (microcephaly).
Bulging fontanelles (with increased intracranial pressure).
Injury.
Intrauterine infections.
After the meningitis has been transferred to exclude the infestation of the Sylvia aqueduct or other complications.

Absolute indications for neurosonography:

Age
Newborns	1 month of life
gestational age less than 36 weeks; body weight at birth less than 2800 g; an Apgar score of less than 7 on 5 minutes; clinical signs of CNS damage; multiple stigma of disembriogenesis; a syndrome of respiratory disorders, infectious diseases in mother and child; deterioration of the condition, transfer to the intensive care unit.	gestational age less than 36 weeks; birth weight less than 2800 g; the presence of clinical signs of damage to the nervous system; multiple stigma of disembriogenesis; an indication in the history of chronic intrauterine hypoxia and / or asphyxia in childbirth.

The standard of hyperechoinality in normal ultrasound anatomy of the brain is the bones of the skull, vascular plexuses of the lateral ventricles, anehogenicity - the liquor-containing structures (ventricles of the brain, cisterns).

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