Our paper on fully automated planning of anatomical fetal brain MRI scans at 0.55T is now available! The purpose of this work is to widen the availability of fetal MRI beyond specialist centres. Grateful for the wonderful co-authors who made it happen!
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Let's talk about #earlyPPROM . Newly published opinion piece about why these women and babies are super-important... but currently have a difficult time navigating NHS maternity services. bmj.com/content/384/bm…
Little Heartbeats #PPROM support & awareness Angharad Care House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee Marian Knight MBE

Superb launch of ⁦Tommy's⁩ National Centre for Preterm Birth Research today thanks to Sarah & Ben for sharing their story of Olive’s birth @ 24 weeks & hearing from ⁦Andrew H Shennan OBE⁩ & Cath Williamson about how it will improve mum & baby outcomes

This month, we're launching our brand new National Centre for Preterm Birth Research.

The centre will find new tests and treatments for premature birth, so fewer babies are born too soon.

We want to give the next generation a better start in life: bit.ly/3PfAw1e

This #InternationalWomensDay we hear from three female consultants at our hospitals - Dr Nitha Naqvi, Dr Carole Ridge & Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan - who speak candidly about their career journeys as women in medicine.

Listen to the episode: rbht.nhs.uk/about-us/more-…

#MoreThanAHospital

This International Women's Day, we're showcasing Lisa who, through her clinical work and research, is improving care for people with high-risk pregnancies and babies with conditions diagnosed before birth.

Find out how she's making a difference: evelinalondon.nhs.uk/lisa

Thanks to all involved Advances in RPL and Extreme PTB Conference Belfast

We PregnancyLossUCC enjoyed sharing findings HealthResearchBoard-funded #ReCurrentStudy

Great to meet other #pregnancyloss researchers siobhan quenby
Alexander Heazell Dr Áine Aventin Rachel small & catch up after much⏳ with Lisa Story Caroline Bryson

Despite major #FOMO at not being at #ECR2024 Today I'm celebrating publishing with BMC A first exploration of 3D reconstructed *fetal MRI* for surface rendered craniofacial visualisation 👉 rdcu.be/dz695 #DeepPhenotyping #3Dimaging #Prenatal #NIHRresearch

Are you a clinician, interested in fetal MRI and thinking about research? KHP have a new Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships scheme open now. Contact [email protected] if you’d like to know more! kingshealthpartners.org/our-work/centr…

The emotional impact of PPROM is significant and shouldn’t be overlooked Andrew H Shennan OBE Little Heartbeats #PPROM support & awareness Fiona Challacombe tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is important as screening and management v different. ?15% of cases we see. Need more than CL/FFN. The role of placental insufficiency in spontaneous preterm birth: - European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology ejog.org/article/S0301-…

Adrenal:body vol ratios significantly larger in fetuses who go on to deliver preterm. Adrenal volumes were not significantly larger, ? due to fulminating chorioamnionitis. Adrenal volumes: An MRI pilot study - Hall - 2024 - Acta O - Wiley Online Library obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ao…

🌟 Special thanks to Clara Cieza Borrella for her outstanding support in launching our groundbreaking 'Fetal Genomics: Decoding the Blueprint of Human Development' module as part of the St George's, University of London Genomic Medicine programme for the 2024/25 academic year. Your

Amazing presentation and incredible body of work from Lisa Story giving the Blair Bell Research Society Memorial Lecture at the RCOG Annual Academic Meeting.

Interested in low-field fetal MRI? I will be presenting our work 'An automated pipeline for quantitative T2* fetal body MRI and segmentation at low field' in Wednesday's poster session (14:30-16:00, W-06-007) at #MICCAI2023

Jana Hutter Jordina Aviles Verdera Raphaël Tomi-Tricot Lisa Story

“Alterations in pulmonary development associated with preterm birth may commence in the antenatal period.” Functional MRI Assessment of the Lungs in Fetuses that Deliver Very Preterm: an MRI pilot study - European Journal of O and G /Reproductive Biology ejog.org/article/S0301-…

Further indicators that alterations in brain development may occur prior to spontaneous preterm birth doi.org/10.1002/pd.6498 Jana Hutter Andrew H Shennan OBE

🚨 A new episode of the Radiology podcast is now available! 🚨 Dr. Lauren Kim discusses the reliability and feasibility of low-field-strength fetal MRI with Jordina Aviles Verdera, Lisa Story and Jana Hutter #RadPodcasts bit.ly/3ThU4Vv

We're delighted to announce Prof Andrew H Shennan OBE OBE has been appointed as our Chair of Maternal & Fetal Health.

Prof Shennan takes over from Professor Lucilla Poston CBE, who has held the Chair position since it was created in 1995.

Read more: bit.ly/3R2I5JE

Progesterone commenced in the first trimester, but not the second trimester seems to prevent pre-eclampsia. Needs prospective trials. doi.org/10.1111/1471-0… ⁦Prof Arri Coomarasamy OBE MBChB MD FRCOG FMedSci⁩