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Background: Ultrasonographic soft markers are normal variants, rather than fetal abnormalities, and guidelines recommend a detailed survey of fetal anatomy to determine the necessity of antenatal karyotyping. Anecdotal reports have described cases with ultrasonographic soft markers in which chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) revealed pathogenic copy number variants (CNVs) despite normal results on conventional karyotyping, but CMA for ultrasonographic soft markers remains a matter of debate. In this systematic review, we evaluated the clinical significance of CMA for pregnancies with isolated ultrasonographic soft markers and a normal fetal karyotype.
Methods: An electronic search was conducted by an experienced librarian through the MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane CENTRAL databases. We reviewed 3,338 articles (3,325 identified by database searching and 13 by a hand search) about isolated ultrasonographic soft markers, and seven ultrasonographic markers (choroid plexus cysts, echogenic bowel, echogenic intracardiac focus, hypoplastic nasal bone, short femur [SF], single umbilical artery, and urinary tract dilatation) were included for this study.
Results: Seven eligible articles were included in the final review. Pathogenic or likely pathogenic CNVs were found in fetuses with isolated ultrasonographic soft markers and a normal karyotype. The overall prevalence of pathogenic or likely pathogenic CNVs was 2.0% (41 of 2,048). The diagnostic yield of CMA was highest in fetuses with isolated SF (9 of 225, 3.9%).
Conclusion: CMA could aid in risk assessment and pregnancy counseling in pregnancies where the fetus has isolated ultrasonographic soft markers along with a normal karyotype.
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