Fetal echocardiography. III. the antenatal diagnosis of structural and rhythm changes
Muñoz, H.; Loureiro, O.; Brugere, S.; Hasbún, J.; Walton, R.; Hernández, I.; Oyarzún, R.; Palominos, G.; Polanco, M.; Parra, M.
Revista Chilena de Obstetricia y Ginecologia 57(1) 16-21; Discussion: 21-22
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-766X PMID: 1342422 Document Number: 393045
We present 119 echocardiographies in 90 high-risk pregnancies, 20 to 40 weeks gestational age. There were found 18 fetuses with abnormal examinations (20%), six of them with structural alteration (6.6%), and 14 arrhythmias (15.5%). The diagnostic correlation in structural alterations with a sensibility of 83% and 100% specificity, and 100% of sensibility and specificity in arrhythmias. The importance of antenatal diagnosis in cardiac malformations and arrhythmias is described.