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  • Title: Fetal echocardiography.
    Author: Benaćerraf BR, Sanders SP.
    Journal: Radiol Clin North Am; 1990 Jan; 28(1):131-47. PubMed ID: 2296632.
    Abstract:
    In recent years, fetal echocardiography has greatly improved in that most major structural heart defects are detectable from 18 weeks on. Fetal M-mode mapping has also enabled us to detect and diagnose fetal arrhythmias as well as follow their treatment. More recently, pulsed Doppler and color-flow mapping have facilitated the dynamic study of blood flow in the cardiovascular system. Fetal echocardiography has now become a sophisticated modality, but is a crucial one to master because most fetuses that have congenital heart defects are not necessarily at any high risk. Evaluation of the fetal heart, therefore, is a recommended part of the routine fetal structural survey.
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