TABLE 4.
The perinatal outcomes in fetuses with microcephaly.
Syndromic microcephaly vs. primary microcephaly | ES testing results | |||||||
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Perinatal outcomes | Total (n = 224) | Primary microcephaly (n = 38) | Syndromic microcephaly (n = 186) | p-value | CSVs (n = 31) | VUS (n = 30) | Negative (n = 101) | p-value |
TOP | 91(40.63%) | 25(65.78%) | 66(35.48%) | 0.000 | 21(67.74%) | 15(50.00%) | 31(30.69%) | 0.001 |
Live birth | 129(57.60%) | 12(31.56%) | 117(62.90%) | 0.000 | 10(32.26%) | 14(46.67%) | 67(66.34%) | 0.001 |
Intrauterine death | 4(1.78%) | 1(5.26%) | 3(1.61%) | 0.520 | 0 | 1(3.33%) | 3(2.97%) | 0.652 |
CSVs, clinically significant variants; VUS, variants of unknown significance; TOP, termination of pregnancy.