Fetal death because of miscarriage, unexpected intrauterine fetal demise, or termination of
pregnancy is a traumatic event for any family. Despite advances in prenatal imaging and …

Perinatal autopsy is the standard method for investigating fetal death; however, it requires
dissection of the fetus. Human fetal microfocus computed tomography (micro-CT) provides a …

A sustained decline in parental consent rates for perinatal autopsies has driven the
development of less‐invasive methods for death investigation. A wide variety of imaging …

Background MRI and CT have been extensively used to study fetal anatomy for research
and diagnostic purposes, enabling minimally invasive autopsy and giving insight in human …

Autopsy investigations provide valuable information regarding fetal death that can assist in
the parental bereavement process, and influence future pregnancies, but conventional …

Objectives To assess the diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive or minimally invasive autopsy
techniques in deaths under 1 year of age. Design This is a systematic review of diagnostic …

Objective To evaluate the feasibility of 9. 4-T postmortem MRI (pm-MRI) for assessment of
major congenital heart defects (CHD) cases terminated in the early stage of gestation …

Objective: In this pilot study, we tested the feasibility of cardiac structures reconstruction from
histological sections in 12–13 weeks normal fetuses. Conventional autopsy is hampered at …

The examination of very small fetal hearts requires special equipment and a specialist that
are not available in many general pathology laboratories. Compared to conventional …

This is a single tertiary population-based study conducted at a center in southwest Romania.
We retrospectively compared data obtained in two periods: January 2008–December 2013 …