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[Fetal echocardiography. III. The antenatal diagnosis of structural and rhythm changes]
H Muñoz1, O Loureiro, S Brugere
1Departamento de Obstetricia y Ginecología, Hospital Clínico José Joaquín Aguirre, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile.
Revista Chilena De Obstetricia Y Ginecologia
|January 1, 1992
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.