All posts in fetal cardiology

Fetal supraventricular tachycardia

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.

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Atrial septal aneurysm in high risk fetuses

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.<

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Right Ventricular Pre-ejection Myocardial Velocity and Myocardial Acceleration in Normal Fetuses Assessed by Doppler Tissue Imaging

Right Ventricular Pre-ejection Myocardial Velocity and Myocardial Acceleration in Normal Fetuses Assessed by Doppler Tissue Imaging

Kenji Harada, MD, Masaki Ogawa, MD, and Toshinobu Tanaka, MD, Akita, Japan

Myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction obtained from Doppler tissue imaging has been introduced as an index of right ventricular contractile function that is unaffected by the shape of the ventricle and loading conditions, but normal value of myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction and the effect of aging on the index are not known in normal fetuses.

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Fetal Doppler echocardiographic diagnosis and successful steroid therapy of Luciani-Wenckebach phenomenon and endocardial fibroelastosis related to maternal anti-Ro and anti-La antibodies

Fetal Doppler echocardiographic diagnosis and successful steroid therapy of Luciani-Wenckebach phenomenon and endocardial fibroelastosis related to maternal anti-Ro and anti-La antibodies

Marie-Josée Raboisson, MD a 1 – Jean-Claude Fouron, MD a – Sven-Erik Sonesson, MD b –
Margareta Nyman, MD c – Francine Proulx, RT a – Sylvie Gamache, RT a

Abstract

Background Complete fetal heart block (HB) and endocardial fibroelastosis (EFE) are known to be associated with maternal anti-Ro and anti-La antibodies. Complete fetal HB is irreversible.

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[Echogenic intracardiac structures (golf ball phenomenon)

Ultraschall Med. 1999 Feb;20(1):19-21. (German)

[Echogenic intracardiac structures (golf ball phenomenon) as predictors of chromosome anomalies]

Bettelheim D, Ulm MR, Deutinger J, Bernaschek G.

Universitatsklinik fur Frauenheilkunde, Abteilung fur Pranatale Diagnostik und Therapie, Wien.

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Unguarded tricuspid valvar orifice in the fetus

Unguarded tricuspid valvar orifice in the fetus
Kenny K. Wong; Duncan I. Farquharson; Walter J. Duncan

Cardiology in the Young, October 2004, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 557-559(3)
Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media

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Prenatal diagnosis of Shone syndrome : parental counseling

Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2004; 24: 629–632
Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/uog.1753
Prenatal diagnosis of Shone’s syndrome: parental counseling and clinical outcome
N. ZUCKER, A. LEVITAS and E. ZALZSTEIN
Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
KEYWORDS: fetal echocardiography; prenatal diagnosis; Shone’s syndrome

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Prenatal diagnosis of tetralogy of Fallot associated with a fistula from left coronary artery to the left atrium

Prenatal diagnosis of tetralogy of Fallot associated with
a fistula from the left coronary artery to the left atrium
Mohammed D. Khan, Sivasankaran Sivasubramonian, John M. Simpson
Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK

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