title: Pediatric prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Fetal cardiology is a rapidly evolving field. Imaging technology continues to advance as do approaches to in-utero interventions and care of the critically ill neonate, with even greater demand for improvement in prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) and arrhythmias.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Reviewing the advances in prenatal diagnosis of CHD in such a rapidly developing field is a broad topic. Therefore, we have chosen to focus this review of recent literature on challenges in prenatal detection of CHD, challenges in prenatal counseling, advances in fetal arrhythmia diagnosis, and potential benefits to patients with CHD who are identified prenatally.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As methods and tools to diagnose and manage CHD and arrhythmias in utero continue to improve, future generations will hopefully see a reduction in both prenatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Prenatal diagnosis can and should be used to optimize location and timing of delivery and postnatal interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: Stacy A S
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Killen
authors.forename: Jessica H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Mouledoux
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kavanaugh-McHugh
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000196:embryology; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000196:embryology; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart; D005817:Genetic Counseling; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000196:embryology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods