Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of fetal nasal bones evaluation in first-trimester screening for trisomy 21 in selected and unselected pregnancies. Visualization of the nasal bones was attempted in women attending for routine nuchal translucency screening (unselected population, n = 7116, 12 cases of trisomy 21), as well as in high-risk pregnancies referred to our tertiary care center (selected population, n = 510, 23 cases of trisomy 21). The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value of absent nasal bones for trisomy 21 were 16.7%, 97.3%, 1.1%, 99.8% and 47.6%, 95.3%, 33.3%, 97.4% in the unselected and selected population, respectively. At logistic regression analysis including nuchal translucency and nasal bones findings, the latter resulted to be an independent predictor of trisomy 21 in the selected but not in the unselected population. First-trimester nasal bones assessment for trisomy 21 screening has a very different performance in selected and unselected pregnancies.
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