[2-dimensional color-coded fetal Doppler echocardiography--its value in prenatal diagnosis].
105 fetuses between 16 and 38 weeks of gestation were studied by fetal echocardiography using color-coded two-dimensional Doppler-echocardiography (2-DDE). Two-dimensional, M-mode, and spectral-Doppler analyses were also performed. In 11 fetuses, structural and/or functional abnormalities were detected. Abnormalities were correctly excluded in all other fetuses. The advantages of the 2-DDE are, in particular: rapid screening for flow abnormalities in the fetal heart and, thus, shortening of the Doppler-examination time; furthermore, a rapid diagnosis of valvular regurgitation, valvular stenosis and abnormal shunting of blood across the interatrial and interventricular septa; the diagnosis of complex congenital heart defects is facilitated by and, in certain case, only possible using 2-DDE.
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Abteilung für Pränatale Diagnostik und Therapie, Universitäts-Frauenklinik, Bonn.
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D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003116:Color; D004200:Diseases in Twins; D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000175:diagnosis; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000175:diagnosis; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000151:congenital; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D012016:Reference Values; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000175:diagnosis
Zweidimensionale farbkodierte fetale Doppler-Echokardiographie--ihr Stellenwert in der pränatalen Diagnostik.