P22.03: Electronic STIC improves four-dimensional fetal echocardiography

Three- and four-dimensional fetal echocardiography.

The rapid continuing development of 3-dimensional ultrasound imaging technologies has extended capabilities of fetal cardiac scanning beyond 2-dimensional imaging technologies and now provides a wide array of analytic possibilities. The acquisition of the 3D volume information is based on initial application of 2-dimensional imaging techniques including grey scale, Doppler, Power Doppler and B-...

Fetal Echocardiography Indications: A Single- Center Experience

Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common lethal congenital anomaly. Early diagnosis of CHD by fetal echocardiography based on maternal and fetal indications is important and lifesaving. The aim of study was to assess the referral aspects of pregnant women to pediatric cardiologist. Materials and Methods This was a retrospective cross-sectional study on 250 documents of refer...

Three-dimensional ultrasound STIC-HDlive rendering: new technique to assessing of fetal heart

Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are the most common fetal congenital malformations, corresponding to an incidence six higher than chromosome anomalies and four higher than neural tube defects [1]. The prevalence of CHD in newborns ranges from 0.6% to 5% [2]. It's too known that the prenatal diagnosis can modify the outcome of some types of CHD [3,4]. The two-dimensional echocardiography is the ...

Non-Invasive Evaluation of Heart Function with Four-Dimensional Echocardiography

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to assess the accuracy and feasibility of left ventricular systolic function determined by four-dimensional echocardiography (4DE). METHODS Latex balloons were sewn into the left ventricle (LV) of 20 freshly harvested pig hearts which were then passively driven by a pulsatile pump apparatus. Global longitudinal strain (GLS), global circumferential strain (G...

Indications for Fetal Echocardiography