Review of speckle tracking analysis to measure the size, shape, and contractility of the fetal heart in fetuses with congenital heart defects.

Greggory R DeVore^1,2, Berthold Klas³, Bettina Cuneo⁴, Gary Satou⁵, Mark Sklansky⁵

¹Fetal Diagnostic Centers, Pasadena, California, USA.

²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

³TomTec Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

⁴Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

⁵Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Abstract

Evaluation of the fetal heart involves two approaches. The first describes a screening protocol in which the heart is imaged in transverse planes that includes the four-chamber view (4CV), left and right outflow tracts, and the 3-vessel-tracheal view. The second approach is a fetal echocardiogram that requires additional cardiac images as well as evaluating ventricular function using diagnostic to…

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