This report describes 3 cases of pulmonary stenosis in the recipient twin in twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Fetal echocardiography showed cardiomegaly, tricuspid valve regurgitation, and increased reverse flow in the inferior vena cava, as signs of congestive heart failure in all 3 cases. We diagnosed 2 cases of pulmonary stenosis by fetal echocardiography prenatally and confirmed our findings...

Fetal echocardiography has allowed fetal arrhythmias to be identified and accurately diagnosed. Because a fetal tachycardia is often detected before an elective delivery is safe considerable interest has focused on treatment by giving drugs to the mother. Digoxin is accepted as the drug of first choice, but no consensus exists on second line drugs.' 2 We present the first report of giving fleca...

consensus has formed among sonographers, radiologists, obstetricians, and maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists: screening for fetal heart disease deserves the dubious distinction of being one of the most challenging and least successful aspects of fetal ultrasonography. Because of the challenges inherent with screening the fetus for congenital heart disease (CHD), the rate of prenatal detecti...

Introduction Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder of cardiac repolarization that affects approximately 1 in 2500 individuals and is associated with syncope and sudden cardiac death. Over the past several decades, advances in clinical diagnosis— combined with gene-directed antiarrhythmic therapies and cardiac device management—have improved the outcome of this life-threatening disorder. Althoug...

OBJECTIVE To assess the degree of agreement between the fetal echocardiographic and postmortem examination of hearts from fetuses with severe malformations of the tricuspid valve. DESIGN A retrospective study to analyse echocardiographic recordings and make comparisons with postmortem findings. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for fetal echocardiography. Institute for cardiac morphology. ...

FETAL CARDIOLOGY IS CURRENTLY PRACTISED IN most European countries, but even within countries there is a great variation in the service provided. The recommendations provided in this document are intended to be guide for all paediatric cardiologists undertaking fetal echocardiography with the view of providing a service in fetal cardiology. It is clear that the health and legal systems vary fro...