Ultrasound

Ultrasound Department

The Department of Ultrasound Medicine of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University was established in the late 1970s and is one of the pioneering units of obstetric and gynecological ultrasound diagnosis and treatment in China. Since its establishment, the department has always kept pace with the times and was the first in the country to carry out the application of various ultrasound technologies in obstetrics and gynecology, including ultrasound for fetal anomaly screening, fetal echocardiography, intracavitary color Doppler ultrasound, obstetric and gynecological interventional ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, pelvic floor ultrasound, etc. In 1996 it reported for the first time in China the successful transplantation of in vitro fertilized embryos obtained by ultrasound-guided transvaginal oocyte retrieval, and in 2006 it successfully performed ultrasound-guided intrauterine fetal blood transfusion in East China.

Previous directors of the ultrasound department include: Professor Zhang Juehua, Professor Chang Cai and Professor Zhou Yuqing; the current administrative director of the ultrasound department is Professor Ren Yunyun.

Our department has undertaken and participated in a number of national and provincial/ministerial scientific research projects, including the National 863 Program, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission and other projects.

It has published more than 100 academic papers in national authoritative and core journals (more than 20 included in SCI). It served as chief editor of the “Obstetric and Gynecological Ultrasound Diagnostics” volume of the national higher education ultrasound medicine specialty “13th Five-Year Plan” postgraduate planning textbook series of the National Health Commission, as chief editor of the “Chinese Guidelines for Obstetric Ultrasound Examination”, and participated in the compilation of the “Chinese Guidelines for Fetal Cardiac Ultrasound Examination” and the “Chinese Guidelines for Gynecological Ultrasound Examination”. Chief-edited monographs include: “Prenatal Ultrasound Diagnostics”, “Atlas of Gynecological and Obstetric Ultrasound”, etc. It also holds important academic positions within societies, mainly including: vice chair of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Group of the Ultrasound Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, deputy head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Group of the Ultrasound Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and many other academic appointments.

The department has more than 40 medium- and high-grade color Doppler ultrasound diagnostic systems, including GE E10, E8, Philips EPIQ5, Samsung WS 80A and other four-dimensional high-grade color Doppler ultrasound diagnostic systems, providing patients with all-round services.

Department features

Obstetric ultrasound; high-risk obstetric ultrasound, fetal echocardiography, mid-trimester fetal anomaly screening, first-trimester anomaly screening + nuchal translucency measurement,, obstetric color Doppler ultrasound, etc.

Gynecological ultrasound: transvaginal gynecological color Doppler ultrasound, transabdominal gynecological color Doppler ultrasound, gynecological three-dimensional ultrasound, etc.

Abdominal color Doppler ultrasound: including liver and gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, etc.

Superficial organ ultrasound: including breast, thyroid, abdominal wall, etc.

Teaching

Our department is a teaching base for standardized residency training and standardized specialist training in Shanghai, and undertakes the teaching tasks for standardized training residents and refresher physicians.

At present, the department has 1 doctoral supervisor and 3 master's supervisors. Three doctoral students and 16 master's students have graduated, and currently 2 doctoral students and 4 master's students are studying.

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