Fetal echocardiography and its evolving impact 1992 to 2002.
The change in frequency over a 10-year time span of establishing a prenatal cardiac diagnosis was studied in infants requiring cardiac surgery in the newborn period. The frequency of prenatal diagnosis increased from 8% to 57%, resulting in earlier postnatal diagnosis and a shift toward delivery in a tertiary care center; the most commonly prenatally diagnosed lesions were either ductal dependent or single ventricular in nature.
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Uthara R
UR
Mohan
Charles S
CS
Kleinman
Jeffrey H
JH
Kern
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