Ventricular Free Wall and Septal Wall Displacement of the Fetal Heart: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment.

Greggory R DeVore¹, Berthold Klas², Gary Satou³, Mark Sklansky³

¹Fetal Diagnostic Centers, Pasadena, California, USA.

²TomTec Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

³Division 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

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to measure the systolic displacement of the free and septal walls of the right (RV) and left (LV) ventricles using speckle tracking analysis in normal fetuses and those with cardiac abnormalities. METHODS: Two-hundred fetuses between 20 and 40 weeks of gestation were examined in which the 4-chamber view (4CV) of the fetal heart was imaged. Speckle tracking…

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