What Is Fetal Echocardiography?
Fetal cardiogram diagnoses fetal congenital heart disease and arrhythmia as early as possible during pregnancy. Accurate assessment of cardiac function is of great significance to the fetal birth.
Fetal cardiogram
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- Chinese name
- Fetal cardiogram
- Disease
- Abnormal heart structure
- Location
- Prenatal diagnosis of fetal cardiac blood vessels
- as a result of
- Fetal congenital malformation
- Fetal cardiogram diagnoses fetal congenital heart disease and arrhythmia as early as possible during pregnancy. Accurate assessment of cardiac function is of great significance to the fetal birth.
- Fetal echocardiographic abnormalities in the heart structure are the most common clinical fetal congenital malformations, mainly including fetal cardiovascular structural abnormalities, fetal arrhythmias, and fetal heart failure. Fetal echocardiography, as a non-invasive imaging method, has a good effect on prenatal intrauterine diagnosis of fetal cardiac vascular abnormalities. In recent years, with the development and clinical application of a series of high-resolution, high-frame-rate color Doppler echocardiography technologies, early and timely diagnosis of fetal congenital heart disease and arrhythmia during pregnancy, and accurate assessment of cardiac function Significant for eugenic and fetal births
- Pregnant women can be born to children with congenital heart disease due to viruses, protozoal infections, medication or exposure to certain toxic substances.
- Some children with congenital heart disease may also be genetically related. If pregnant women have congenital heart disease, the child has a 1-2% chance of suffering from this disease. Pregnant women who have had a child with a congenital heart malformation also have a 1-2% chance that the next child will also have congenital heart disease. Therefore, these pregnant women should be screened during pregnancy to check the heart condition of the fetus.
- A simple auscultation of the fetal heart, or B-ultrasound, is not easy to diagnose congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography can clearly see the structure of the fetal heart and the rhythm and rate of the fetal heart. If the fetal heart is abnormal, the diagnosis can be confirmed. Pregnant women who have had a child with congenital heart disease should not ignore this test.