title: Pediatric Doppler echocardiography 1987: major advances in technology.
abstract: The major advances in the capabilities of pediatric cardiologists to evaluate the heart by ultrasound that have occurred in the last 5 years have been reviewed. In addition to the new Doppler methods, the evolution of higher resolution echo techniques have provided a comprehensive means of evaluating the heart noninvasively. This information has relegated catheterization to a more therapeutic arena, leaving ultrasound as the major diagnostic technique for evaluation of congenital heart disease, both before and after birth.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy