Sonography (Ultrasound)

Sonography is one of the basic and essential diagnostic services. Our ultrasound department is equipped with a very high-end ultrasound machine of the Voluson series. Apart from routine ultrasound, the machine is equipped to do Colour Doppler, Power Doppler, 3D, and 4D ultrasound. All basic and advanced ultrasound which are required for mother and child care is performed at IHR on a daily basis.

Advanced ultrasound methods required for the assessment of infertile couples such as 3D TVS, 3D HISTOGRAM to assess uterine receptivity, and scrotal ultrasound are also done every day at IHR.

Preparation

For abdominal sonography, 4 hours of fasting is required.
For pelvic sonography (Trans-abdominal sonography: TAS) full bladder is required, which can be achieved by not passing urine for at least 1 hour before the scan and drinking about 1 litre of water during this time.
For transvaginal sonography (TVS), no special preparation is required.
For pregnancy ultrasound NO special preparations are required, i.e. no empty stomach or no full bladder is required if you are pregnant.
Follicular study is done using TVS, so no special preparations are required.

Routine Pregnancy Scan

Ultrasound is a very useful technique during pregnancy to rule out any congenital abnormality in the growing fetus inside the uterus. Not just the health of the baby, but also the health of the to-be-mother can be determined with the help of ultrasounds. It helps in measuring the growth of the baby in terms of her weight and height. Gynecologists recommend regular ultrasounds to check the levels of amniotic fluid, to rule out multiple pregnancies or ectopic pregnancy, to estimate delivery date, and to measure cervical length as well.

Fetal Echocardiography Anomaly Scan

Fetal Echocardiography is a test similar to ultrasound. It allows the doctor to see the structure and function of the baby’s heart in detail. It also enables the doctor to see blood flow through the fetal heart and cardiac rhythm.

Anomaly Scan

Anomaly Scan or mid-pregnancy scan is an ultrasound scan done between the 18th and 21st week of pregnancy to take a closer look at the baby and the womb (uterus) and to have an idea where the placenta is lying. This scan aims to look for any major physical abnormalities in the growing baby. Although it can’t pick up every problem, it gives an idea about the baby’s bones, heart, brain, spinal cord, face, kidneys, and abdomen and may allow the identification of the following conditions (some of which are very rare):

First Trimester (10-13 Weeks)

First Trimester (10–13 Weeks)
Face	✔ Hypotelorism (severe) ✔ Micrognathia (severe) ✔ Large median or bilateral clefts ✔ Large facial mass ✔ And more…
Chest	✔ Abnormal situs ✔ Mediastinal shift ✔ And more…
Abdomen	✔ Omphalocele (large) ✔ Gastroschisis ✔ Limb-body-wall-complex ✔ Megacystis ✔ And more…
Spine	✔ Large neural tube defects ✔ Large soft tissue masses ✔ And more…
Extremities	✔ Large limb reduction defect ✔ Severe skeletal dysplasia ✔ And more…
Second Trimester (18–20 Weeks)
Brain/Skull	✔ Ventriculomegaly ✔ Dandy-Walker malformation ✔ Arnold-Chiari II malformation ✔ Agenesis of the corpus callosum ✔ And more…
Face	✔ Cleft lip ✔ Micrognathia ✔ Large masses ✔ And more…
Neck	✔ Nuchal edema/cystic hygroma ✔ Large neck mass ✔ And more…
Chest	✔ Diaphragmatic hernia ✔ Large chest mass ✔ Pleural effusion ✔ And more…
Heart	✔ Ventricular disproportion ✔ Large ventricular septal defects ✔ Tricuspid/mitral valve atresia ✔ Arrhythmia ✔ Tetralogy of Fallot ✔ Truncus arteriosus ✔ Transposition of great vessels ✔ And more…
Abdomen	✔ Gastroschisis ✔ Omphalocele ✔ Choledochal cyst ✔ Ascites ✔ And more…
Genitourinary	✔ Single umbilical artery ✔ Renal agenesis ✔ Multicystic / dysplastic kidneys ✔ Hydronephrosis ✔ Megacystis ✔ Bladder exstrophy ✔ And more…
Spine	✔ Spina bifida ✔ Sacrococcygeal teratoma ✔ And more…
Extremities	✔ Limb reduction defect ✔ Micromelia (short limbs) ✔ Fractures/bowing ✔ Joint contractures ✔ Absent thumb ✔ And more…

Paediatric Scan

A pediatric ultrasound is an examination of the child’s abdomen with the help of an ultrasound machine. The procedure involves an ultrasound gel and a small probe (transducer) that uses sound waves to produce an image. It is a non-invasive medical examination that helps our experts diagnose and treats abdominal pain and investigate other useful information about other organs such as the liver and kidneys. This helps determine the causes of vomiting in young infants, detect the cause and the presence of an apparent enlarged abdominal organ, guide other procedures including biopsies and identify the location of abnormal fluid in the abdomen.