This is a training video about the first trimester fetal echocardiograpy. The compilation video consists of 31 short clips from 18 patients scanned at 11-13 weeks of pregnancy due to high risk for congenital heat disease (CHD). All presented cases had normal heart anatomy, which was confirmed by 20 week fetal echocardiography.
The indications for early pregnancy fetal echocardiography included:
Increased nuchal translucency thickness (range from 3.5 to 7.3 mm)
Tricuspid regurgitation
Reversed a-wave in ductus venosus
Extracardiac anomaly: exomphalos
Chromosomal abnormalities: balanced translocation
Previous pregnancy complicated by fetal CHD
All the scans were performed using a Voluson 730 ultrasound scanner. In the video every clip is played twice. In order to provide the viewer with the real experience of heart scanning the clips are not annotated. For an annotated training video of fetal echocardiography please refer to our post 'Fetal echocardiography at 11-13 weeks of pregnancy' www.ultrasoundl...
Abbreviations:
3VTV -- three vessel-trachea view
4CV -- four chamber view
LOT -- left outflow tract
ROT -- right outflow tract
Ao -- aortic arch
Da -- ductus arteriosus
PV -- pulmonary valve
SVC -- superior vena cava
RSA -- right subclavian artery
Негізгі бет Fetal heart at 12 week: 31 clips of the fetal echo (compilation)
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