Fetal cardiac MRI
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Background MRI has been confirmed as an important tool for fetal central nervous system and other diseases. MRI has also emerged as a powerful approach to imaging heart diseases in infants. But fetus with heart diseases diagnosed by MRI has relative rarely been reported. Now most doctors agree that fetal cardiac MRI can provide some additional information when the patient was with some special conditions such as obesity, uterine myoma, twins and oligohydramnios. There also has been general agreement that fetal cardiac MRI can provide some additional information for fetal cardiac tumor, heart diverticulum, pericardium cyst, pericardium effusion and others. The question is if the patient was without any special conditions such as obesity and oligohydramnios, the fetal cardiac MRI still can or can not provide enough information for fetal congenital heart disease (CHD) which is more difficult to diagnose.
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