[Clinical value of the fetal echocardiography routine inspection in grass-roots hospitals]

To estimate the significance and clinical value of fetal echocardiography in the prenatal test of the grass-roots hospital.

22 570 pregnant women were reviewed, newborns echocardiography were carried out in 19 978 cases. As for the abnormal cases in prenatal screening, the result was compared with the superior hospital diagnosis, also newborns echocardiography was executed to identify the result.

140 cases with fetal cardiac abnormalities had been diagnosed, of which 130 cases confirmed. The diagnosis coincidence rate was 92.9% (130/140) and prenatal positive detection rate was 0.6% (130/22 570). Omission diagnostic rate was 6.2% (8/130). Misdiagnosis rate was 3.8% (5/130). 3 cases were lost to follow-up. 174 cases of newborns cardiac anomalies were diagnosed in postpartum echocardiography.

it is of importance to carry out the fetal echocardiography routine inspection in grass-roots hospitals, of which will facilitated the early detection and diagnosis of congenital heart abnormalities.