Prenatal diagnosis and correction of congenital heart defects.
The improvement in heart scanning expertise during the routine obstetric scan has resulted in more congenital heart disease being recognized prenatally. Early diagnosis of severe heart malformation results in the majority of parents choosing to interrupt the pregnancy or allows the mother to give birth in a centre with obstetric and paediatric cardiac facilities.
Allan
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Guy's Hospital, London.
Baker
E J
EJ
D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal