The Potential for Detection of Congenital Heart Lesions by Fetal Echocardiography

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  • John M Simpson
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Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust London, SE1 7EH UK. E-mail: [email protected] others, for which more extended views of the outflow tracts are required for detection. For example, United Kingdom national data obtained between 1993 and 1995 reported a detection rate of 38% for atrioventricular THE POTENTIAL FOR DETECTION OF CONGENITAL HEART LESIONS BY FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

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تاریخ انتشار 2009