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- Title
Using speckle-tracking echocardiography to assess fetal myocardial deformation: are we there yet?
- Authors
Day, T. G.; Charakida, M.; Simpson, J. M.
- Abstract
Fetal echocardiography is now a fundamental part of antenatal care. The same study also included fetuses with several other congenital heart lesions and found that fetuses with hypoplastic left heart syndrome had severely reduced LV strain, while those with Ebstein's malformation of the tricuspid valve had severely reduced RV strain[39]. While this may not be a problem in adult echocardiography, the extremely small physical size of the fetal heart may introduce inaccuracy into fetal STE should the automated software attempt to track kernels that are closer together than this resolution. STE based on 2D B-mode imaging also has the limitation that kernels may move out of the imaging plane, meaning that they are no longer tracked.
- Subjects
FETAL echocardiography; PARVOVIRUS B19; CARDIAC contraction; FETOFETAL transfusion; STROKE volume (Cardiac output); DOBUTAMINE
- Publication
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 5, p575
- ISSN
0960-7692
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/uog.20233