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The random measurement of the transverse diameter of the fetal heart: a potential source of error.
Author(s) -
DeVore G R,
Platt L D
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.1985.4.7.335
Subject(s) - medicine , fetal heart , cardiac cycle , fetus , diastole , heart disease , systole , transverse plane , cardiology , ultrasound , pregnancy , radiology , blood pressure , genetics , biology
In a recent report it was suggested that the transverse diameter of the fetal heart measured randomly during the cardiac cycle from the real‐time image was useful in predicting congenital heart disease (Jeanty P, Romero R, Cantraine F, et al: Fetal cardiac dimensions: a potential tool for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. J Ultrasound Med 3:359, 1984). Comparing the above approach with M‐mode measurements at end‐diastole and end‐systole suggests that random measurement of the transverse diameter is not appropriate for fetal cardiovascular evaluation because it could predict over 40 per cent of normal fetuses to have an "abnormally" increased cardiac dimension.