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P20.09: Tetralogy of Fallot and malalignment ventricular septal defect detected at early echocardiography
Author(s) -
De Robertis V.,
Fanelli T.,
Volpe G.,
Mugavero M.,
Rembouskos G.,
Volpe P.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.202
H-Index - 141
eISSN - 1469-0705
pISSN - 0960-7692
DOI - 10.1002/uog.21080
Subject(s) - medicine , tetralogy of fallot , pulmonary atresia , cardiology , fetal echocardiography , heart disease , fetus , pregnancy , stenosis , gestation , prenatal diagnosis , biology , genetics
Results 36 fetuses with TOF or with malalignment VSD were detected at early echocardiography between 2013 and 2018. In 14 cases, parents opted for termination of pregnancy (TOP) in the first trimester, due to other structural or chromosomal abnormalities and were excluded from the study. In 2 further cases parents opted for TOP at the mid-trimester scan. In 6 of the remaining 20 fetuses (14 cases of TOF and 6 malalignment VSD) the congenital heart disease progressed in severity in the second (n=2) and third trimester (n=4). In 4 of these cases with TOF a malalignment VSD progressed and 2 cases of TOF progressed in TOF with pulmonary atresia (PA).