[Fetal echocardiography. III. The antenatal diagnosis of structural and rhythm changes]

Rev Chil Obstet Ginecol. 1992;57(1):16-21; discussion 21-2.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We present 119 echocardiographies in 90 high-risk pregnancies, 20 to 40 weeks gestational age. There were found 18 fetuses with abnormal examinations (20%), six of them with structural alteration (6.6%), and 14 arrhythmias (15.5%). The diagnostic correlation in structural alterations with a sensibility of 83% and 100% specificity, and 100% of sensibility and specificity in arrhythmias. The importance of antenatal diagnosis in cardiac malformations and arrhythmias is described.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / congenital
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnostic imaging*
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / epidemiology
  • Chile / epidemiology
  • Echocardiography / instrumentation
  • Echocardiography / methods*
  • Echocardiography / statistics & numerical data
  • Female
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Pregnancy
  • Risk Factors
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal / instrumentation
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal / methods*
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal / statistics & numerical data