Sonographic Appearance of Fetal Structural Heart Diseases Determined Using Wide-band Doppler

The objectives in this report are to present data on echocardiographic imaging of fetuses with congenital structural heart diseases using wide-band Doppler and to discuss the practical application of this unique display modality in the field of fetal echocardiography. We performed fetal echocardiogr...

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Published inJournal of medical ultrasound Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 285 - 291
Main Author Hidaka, Nobuhiro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2008
Subjects
congenital heart defects
Doppler echocardiography
fetal ultrasonography
fetal ultrasonography
Doppler echocardiography
congenital heart defects
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Summary:The objectives in this report are to present data on echocardiographic imaging of fetuses with congenital structural heart diseases using wide-band Doppler and to discuss the practical application of this unique display modality in the field of fetal echocardiography. We performed fetal echocardiography using wide-band Doppler technology and examined fetuses that were at various gestational ages between January 2004 and December 2007. Satisfactory blood flow signals could be obtained using the wide-band Doppler; this has increased the understanding of fetal cardiovascular hemodynamics. Wide-band Doppler appears a color flow mapping method that can contribute toward better understanding of fetal cardiovascular hemodynamics; it is also expected to provide greater accuracy in fetal echocardiography.
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ISSN:0929-6441
DOI:10.1016/S0929-6441(09)60006-0