Testing A Novel Sonographic Technique to Improve Diagnosis of Pregnancies at Risk of Stillbirth

Recent evidence show that many stillbirths are preventable and urgently calls for appropriate strategies to improve awareness of risk factors and antenatal detection of at-risk babies(1). However, there is no accurate diagnostic approach to identify fetuses at risk (2,3). The current sonographic method is associated with a high false-positive rate and a significant false-negative risk(4). In addition, community awareness remains acutely low, with no strategies to support social -reintegration(5)