Can Fetal Echocardiographic Measurements of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Angle Detect Fetuses with Conotruncal Cardiac Anomalies?

Alona Raucher SternfeldTal BetzerAkiva TamirYossi MizrachiSagie AssaJacob BarLiat Gindes

Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)

The LVOT angle is constant during pregnancy, and differs significantly in fetuses with TGA/AS, and AVC, compared to fetuses with normal hearts (wider and narrower, respectively).

Keyphrases

left ventricular
gestational age
high resolution
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
left atrial
mitral valve
acute myocardial infarction
heart failure
cardiac resynchronization therapy
aortic stenosis
preterm birth
pulmonary hypertension
ejection fraction
mass spectrometry
aortic valve
acute coronary syndrome