Fetal lung volume and pulmonary artery changes in congenital heart disease with decreased pulmonary blood flow: Quantitative ultrasound analysis.

Yong GuoXiaowei LiuXiaoyan GuYe ZhangLin SunYi-Hua He

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)

In our study, FLV/EFW and MGI values for fetuses with CHD-DPBF tended to be decreased and FLV was associated with RPA + LPA. We concluded that CHD-DPBF might delay fetal lung development. The summed diameter of the RPA + LPA measurement could be used as an alternative to FLV for assessing fetal lung development.

Keyphrases

pulmonary artery
congenital heart disease
blood flow
pulmonary hypertension
coronary artery
pulmonary arterial hypertension
magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
mass spectrometry