FETAL DYSMORPHOLOGY PROJECT

Holoprosencephaly (HPE): Challenges in the diagnosis and management

We are happy to invite you to the next course of the FETAL DYSMORPHOLOGY PROJECT. The material of the course is based on extensive practical work  and more than 10 years teaching experience with vast analysis of prenatally undiagnosed cases. This seminar is based on the personal experience of scanning large numbers of fetuses with HPE.

The must course for every fetal medicine and ultrasound professional, sonographers, obstetricians, fetal medicine midwives and clinical geneticists.

Holoprosencephaly (HPE)

Holoprosencephaly is one of the commonest and serious CNS anomalies. It has high incidence in the 1st trimester and is associated with wide variety of syndromes and conditions including trisomy 13, triploidy and other genetic diseases. Diagnosis of HPE seems to be easy and straightforward, however is our daily practice we have encountered plenty of cases, where its recognition and management were challenging.

This seminar is based on personal experience and comprehensive review of the literature. We will also show rare and unusual cases of HPE.

The main topics of seminar:

• HPE overview
• Classification of HPE
• Causes and associations of HPE
• Role of genetic testing and counselling
• Alobar HPE: typical presentation at 11-13 weeks
• Semilobar and lobar HPE – problems with recognition
• Middle interhemispheric variant (MIH) or syntelencephaly
• Rare forms of HPE
• HPE and spina bifida
• Facial features of HPE
• Diagnosis of HPE before 11 weeks
• Missed and challenging cases – how to avoid serious mistakes
• Management of HPE
• Questions and answers

Our promise: No boring stuff; just videos and discussions

Planned duration of this seminar is 2.5 hours with technical break  – 20 min

The course will run in the new format. It will be worldwide online interactive ultrasound training course and the participants will have one week free access to the recording of the course via cloud service. It means that you can also register and attend the course as an offline event.  Overall duration of the course will be at least 2.5 hours.

Language

The official language is English. No simultaneous interpretations will be available.

Online courses and certificates

Certificate of the course attendance can only be redeemed if the full course is live streamed at the time it is being presented.

Certificate cannot be received if the course is viewed once the course ends (on-demand recording).

For delegates who watched the course in real time and did not receive the certificate within a month time, please contact LSUS: info@lsus.co.uk

We are happy to invite you to join us for the Worldwide Online Course. While registered – you will receive the link with instructions to connect to the event.