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Fetal two‐dimensional doppler echocardiography (colour flow mapping) and its place in prenatal diagnosis
Author(s) -
Gembruch U.,
Hansmann M.,
Redel D. A.,
Bald R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
prenatal diagnosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1097-0223
pISSN - 0197-3851
DOI - 10.1002/pd.1970090802
Subject(s) - medicine , fetal echocardiography , fetus , cardiology , doppler effect , valvular regurgitation , doppler echocardiography , radiology , blood flow , regurgitation (circulation) , prenatal diagnosis , shunting , stenosis , pregnancy , blood pressure , astronomy , genetics , physics , diastole , biology
One hundred and fifty fetuses between 16 and 38 weeks of gestation were studied by fetal echocardiography using colour‐coded two‐dimensional Doppler echocardiography. Two‐dimensional, M‐mode, and Doppler spectral analyses were also performed. In 14 fetuses, structural and/or functional abnormalities were detected. Abnormalities were correctly ruled out in all the other fetuses. The advantages of two‐dimensional Doppler echocardiography are (1) rapid screening for flow abnormalities in the fetal heart, and thus shortening of the Doppler examination time; (2) rapid diagnosis of valvular regurgitation, valvular stenosis, and abnormal shunting of blood across the interatrial and interventricular septa; and (3) facilitation of the diagnosis of complex congenital heart defects which in certain cases is possible only by using two‐dimensional Doppler echocardiography.