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Kurjak Antenatal Neurodevelopmental Test (KANET): A Useful Tool for Fetal Neurodevelopmental Assessment

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An extensive review of the literature on the diagnostic and clinical accuracy of Kurjak Antenatal Neurodevelopmental Test (KANET) and summarized results of the multicenter study involving ten centers reviled that four-dimensional ultrasonography (4D US) has become a powerful tool and KANET became an important test in everyday clinical practice in antenatal functional studies of fetal behavior and detection of fetuses at risk for neurological impairment.

After 10 years of clinical use, many published papers and multicenter studies, hundreds of trained physicians, thousands of published cases, and performed tests all over the world, KANET is proving its value. KANET evolved into the internationally accepted test used in everyday clinical practice, empowering the clinicians worldwide to evaluate the fetal behavior and to detect fetuses at high risk for neurological impairments and in particular cerebral palsy (CP).

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  1. Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Asim Kurjak

  2. Medical School, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Asim Kurjak

  3. University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Asim Kurjak

  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, University of Zagreb, “Sveti Duh” Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia

    Milan Stanojevć

  5. Polyclinic “Veritas”, Zagreb, Croatia

    Lara Spalldi Barišić

  6. Polyclinic for Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine “Repromed”, Zagreb, Croatia

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Kurjak, A., Stanojevć, M., Barišić, L.S., Radončić, E. (2021). Kurjak Antenatal Neurodevelopmental Test (KANET): A Useful Tool for Fetal Neurodevelopmental Assessment. In: Schenker, J.G., Genazzani, A.R., Sciarra, J.J., Mettler, L., Birkhaeuser, M.H. (eds) Clinical Management of Infertility. Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71838-1_19

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