Ethics of Cardiac Transplantation in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Alexander A. Kon
Editorial
Pediatr Cardiol (2009) 30:725–728
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Roma, 12 mag. (da Adnkronos Salute)
Diritto di nascita sempre, anche a chi non è sano.
Lo ricorda la Cassazione che mette in chiaro come “la mancanza di consenso informato", tale da far decidere la madre “alla interruzione volontaria di gravidanza, non può dar luogo a risarcimento anche nei confronti del nascituro poi nato con malformazioni, oltre che nei confronti della gestante madre".

Presentazione del testo di ecocardiografia fetale Dalle quattro camere al 4D : evoluzione dell’ecocardiografia fetale.
S.Gerboni
Sono passati 20 anni da quando gli ecografisti ostetrici erano alquanto restii ad eseguire altre scansioni cardiache, al di fuori delle quattro camere.

The concept of the fetus as a patient should not be understood in terms of the independent moral status of the fetus, i.e., some feature(s) of the fetus that, independently of other entities e including the pregnant woman, the physician, and the state - generates obligations of others to it.

Fetal supraventricular tachycardia diagnosed and treated at twenty-four weeks of gestation and after birth: a case report
Romeo E, D’Alto M, Russo MG, Sarubbi B, Cardaropoli D, Paladini D, Pacileo G, Annunziata A, Calabrò R
Chair of Cardiology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Supraventricular tachycardia is the most common clinically significant fetal tachycardia. The diagnosis is usually made at routine sonographic workup during the second-third trimester of pregnancy. Treatment goals are cardioversion to sinus rhythm and reversal of cardiac dysfunction.

Prevalence and prognosis of atrial septal aneurysm in high risk fetuses without structural heart defects
Papa M, Fragasso G, Camesasca C, Di Turi RP, Spagnolo D, Valsecchi L, Calori G, Margonato A
Division of Cardiology, Scientific Institute/University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

BACKGROUND.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and prognostic implications of the association between atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) and fetal arrhythmias in a population of high risk fetuses.<