This study focuses on the dynamic flow through the fetal aortic arch driven by the concurrent action of right and left ventricles. We created a parametric pulsatile computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the fetal aortic junction with physiologic vessel geometries. To gain a better biophysical understanding, an in vitro experimental fetal flow loop for flow visualization was constructed fo...

Fetal rhythm abnormalities occur in 2% of pregnancies. They are usually identified by the obstetrician or midwifes after 20 weeks. There are four different methods used to assess fetal arrhythmias: scalp electrodes attached to electrocardiographic recordings, magnetocardiography (FMCG), fetal electrocardiographic recordings from the maternal abdomen, and fetal echocardiography (M-mode, pulsed-D...

OBJECTIVE To describe a novel method (Fetal Intelligent Navigation Echocardiography (FINE)) for visualization of standard fetal echocardiography views from volume datasets obtained with spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) and application of 'intelligent navigation' technology. METHODS We developed a method to: 1) demonstrate nine cardiac diagnostic planes; and 2) spontaneously navigate th...

a 47-year-old man presented as a dyspnea and fatigue. a transthoracic echocardi-ography (tte) performed to assess valvar heart disease and left ventricular (lv) function showed a large hydatid cysts in the inter ventricular septum bulging to posterior of heart and compressing its overlying muscle as whitish round mass. the patient underwent elective surgery by evacuation of septal hydatid cysts...

solated ventricular noncompaction (IVNC), also known as spongy ventricular myocardium, is a rare cardiomyopathy characterized by numerous ventricular trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses, thought to be due to an arrest in cardiac embryogenesis. The clinical spectrum varies from asymptomatic patients to cardiac failure with neonatal death. Prenatal diagnosis has been reported sporadi...

FULL PRESCRIBING INFORMATION: CONTENTS* WARNING: FETAL TOXICITY 1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE 1.1 Hypertension 1.2 Hypertensive Patients with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy 1.3 Nephropathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients 2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION 2.1 Hypertension 2.2 Hypertensive Patients with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy 2.3 Nephropathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients 2.4 Dosage Modifications in Patients wi...

BACKGROUND Suboptimal fetal nutrition may influence early growth and cardiovascular development. We examined whether umbilical and uterine artery resistance indices, as measures of feto-placental and utero-placental vascular function, respectively, are associated with fetal and childhood growth and cardiovascular development. METHODS AND RESULTS This study was embedded in a population-based p...