title: Experimental fetal transesophageal and intracardiac echocardiography utilizing intravascular ultrasound technology.
abstract: Fetal transesophageal and intracardiac echocardiography by utilizing ultrasound technology permits accurate definition of cardiac anatomy in fetal sheep. Because fetal transesophageal echocardiography is less invasive than intracardiac echocardiography, it has the potential to serve as a monitoring tool for currently developed open and fetoscopic fetal cardiac interventions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szabo
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: VanderWall
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Stelnicki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meuli
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Silverman
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Chou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012756:Sheep; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal