Abstract
ntroduction: Ventriculomegaly is dened as dilation of the fetal cerebral ventricles (>10mm). (1) The incidence of mild to moderate fetal ventriculomegaly on prenatal ultrasound is 1 percent.(2) It is characterized into mild, moderate and severe. Ventriculomegaly maybe associated with genetic, structural or neurocognitive disorders and outcome maybe normal or it may result in severe impairment. The case being described is of mild unilateral ventriculomegaly wherein the patient was diagnosed at 21 weeks of gestation followed by prenatal testing to rule out structural, genetic and infectious causes. After ruling out structural genetic and infectious causes the pregnancy was continued till term giving due consideration to prognosis. Patient was delivered at term by Caesarean-section with good fetomaternal outcome.
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