RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Identification of congenital cardiac malformations by echocardiography in midtrimester fetus.
JF British Heart Journal
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 358
OP 362
DO 10.1136/hrt.46.4.358
VO 46
IS 4
A1 L D Allan
A1 M Tynan
A1 S Campbell
A1 R H Anderson
YR 1981
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/46/4/358.abstract
AB Fetal echocardiograms were performed in 21 pregnancies before midtrimester termination. All fetal heart specimens were collected and studied morphologically. Eighteen had been diagnosed as normal echocardiographically and this was confirmed anatomically. Deficiency of the atrial septum was suspected in one, and primum and secundum atrial septal defects were found anatomically. Coarctation of the aorta was suspected in another and this was confirmed anatomically. A ventricular septal defect was suspected in one which proved to be normal on dissection.