20 weeks Anatomy scan

I had my 20 weeks anatomy scan and my sonographer detect extra trachea on the heart. All other fetus organ is all normal. Anyone experience this?

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Are you asking about ARSA? One of my twin is diagnosed with ARSA and my previous gynae asked us to do amniocentesis when all other organs are normal. I was hesitant as there's a risk of miscarriage so I spoke to a high risk specialist and he calculated that our risk of baby having issue will be 2-4% so we decided not to do the amniocentesis and just believe that baby will be fine. The high risk specialist did mention that there's a lot of ARSA cases in which baby turned out to be completely fine.

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