Intraamniotic Fetal Echocardiography

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Intraamniotic fetal echocardiography: a new fetal cardiovascular monitoring approach during human fetoscopic surgery.

A33-year-old pregnant women had been referred to our center at 28 1 weeks’ gestation. Maternal transabdominal fetal ultrasound imaging at that time revealed a fetal congenital diaphragmatic hernia with very hypoplastic lungs. Because of the poor prognosis of the fetal congenital diaphragmatic hernia, temporary fetoscopic balloon occlusion was performed as a potentially live-saving experimental ...

Fetal Echocardiography Indications: A Single- Center Experience

Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common lethal congenital anomaly. Early diagnosis of CHD by fetal echocardiography based on maternal and fetal indications is important and lifesaving. The aim of study was to assess the referral aspects of pregnant women to pediatric cardiologist. Materials and Methods This was a retrospective cross-sectional study on 250 documents of refer...

Indications for Fetal Echocardiography

Technique of fetal echocardiography

Congenital heart disease is the most common abnormality in the human fetus. Fetal echocardiography has been used to detect the majority of cardiac defects, and it is now part of the routine screening method for fetal evaluation. In this article, we present standard ultrasonographic views of the normal fetal heart obtained during the second trimester, first-trimester fetal echocardiography findi...

Fetal Dual Doppler Echocardiography

Dual Doppler echocardiography is a recently developed technique performed using an instrument with two separate sample gates, allowing simultaneous recording of signals from two locations. We describe the use of dual Doppler echo­ cardiography to assess fetal cardiac rhythm. Fetal arrhythmias are common and encountered in 1 to 2% pregnancies. They often resolve spontaneously and do not require ...