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Murine Fetal Echocardiography
Published on: February 15, 2013
Prenatal Diagnosis of Berry Syndrome by Fetal Echocardiography
Jie Ren1, Xiang-Yang Huang1, Chao-Xue Zhang2
1Department of Echocardiography, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230001, China.
Abstract:
Berry syndrome is a rare combination of cardiac malformations, which is characterized by the following malformations, including the aortopulmonary window, aortic right pulmonary origin, interrupted aortic arch or hypoplastic aortic arch or coarctation of the aorta, and an intact ventricular septum. There are few reviews on prenatal diagnosis of Berry syndrome by fetal echocardiography. We used sequential cross-sectional scanning from apex to bottom of the heart to find aortic right pulmonary origin, aortopulmonary window, and hypoplastic aortic arch. This process is like opening a Chinese scroll painting, and the picture gradually extends to reveal the whole picture. As far as we concerned, this is the first report of prenatal diagnosis with Berry syndrome through sequential cross-sectional scanning.
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