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Multi-center results on the clinical use of KANET

  • Asim Kurjak , Lara Spalldi Barišić EMAIL logo , Milan Stanojević , Panagiotis Antsaklis , Sonal Panchal , Ulrich Honemeyer , Raul Moreira Neto , Suada Tinjić , Radu Vladareanu , Sertaç Esin , Dorota Bomba-Opon , Edin Međedović and Toshyuki Hata
Published/Copyright: November 2, 2019
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
From the journal Journal of Perinatal Medicine Volume 47 Issue 9

Abstract

An extensive review of the literature on the diagnostic and clinical accuracy of Kurjak’s antenatal neurodevelopmental test (KANET) and the summarized results of the multi-center study involving 10 centers revealed that four-dimensional ultrasonography (4D US) has become a powerful tool and KANET a valuable test that empowers the clinicians worldwide to evaluate the fetal behavior in a systematic way and contribute to the detection of fetuses that might be at high risk for neurological impairments and in particular cerebral palsy (CP). After 10 years of clinical use, many published papers and multi-center studies, hundreds of trained physicians and numerous tests performed all over the world, KANET has proven its value and has been showing encouraging results so far. The aim of this paper is to show the results from the studies done so far and to reveal the clinical value of the KANET. We expect that data from the larger ongoing collaborative study, the short- and long-term postnatal follow-up will continue to improve our knowledge. Ultimately, we all strive to prevent the CP disorders, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurological impairments and we are convinced that KANET might be helpful in the realization of this important aim.

Keywords: autism spectrum disorder (ASD); cerebral palsy; fetal brain; four-dimensional ultrasound; Kurjak’s antenatal neurodevelopmental test; prenatal diagnosis
Corresponding author: Lara Spalldi Barišić, MD, MSc, PhD Candidate, University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Specialist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Private Clinic Veritas, Zagreb, Croatia

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Employment or leadership: None declared.

  4. Honorarium: None declared.

  5. Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2019-07-25
Accepted: 2019-09-21
Published Online: 2019-11-02
Published in Print: 2019-11-26

©2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2019-0281
Keywords for this article
autism spectrum disorder (ASD); cerebral palsy; fetal brain; four-dimensional ultrasound; Kurjak’s antenatal neurodevelopmental test; prenatal diagnosis

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Corner of Academy
  3. Multi-center results on the clinical use of KANET
  4. The use of atosiban prolongs pregnancy in patients treated with fetoscopic endotracheal occlusion (FETO)
  5. Original Articles – Obstetrics
  6. Evidence that intra-amniotic infections are often the result of an ascending invasion – a molecular microbiological study
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  8. Fetal adrenal gland size in gestational diabetes mellitus
  9. Characteristics of obstetric admissions to intensive care unit: APACHE II, SOFA and the Glasgow Coma Scale
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  13. Measurement of inferior facial angle and prefrontal space ratio in first trimester fetuses with aneuploidies: a retrospective study
  14. Original Articles – Newborns
  15. Factors affecting cerebrovascular reactivity to CO2 in premature infants
  16. Subcutaneous fat necrosis, a rare but serious side effect of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and whole-body hypothermia
  17. Point-of-care ultrasound for peripherally inserted central catheter monitoring: a pilot study
  18. Acknowledgment
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