The risk of cystic fibrosis with prenatally detected echogenic bowel in an ethnically and racially diverse North American population.

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Fetal echogenic bowel has been reported as a normal variant in the second trimester, and has also been associated with an adverse fetal outcome, including cystic fibrosis (CF), an autosomal recessive genetic disease. Previous studies have reported that 3.3 to 13.3 per cent of fetuses with echogenic bowel discovered during the second trimester were affected with CF. Between 1994 and 1998 our laboratory tested 159...

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