3-D FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECTS

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a new three-dimensional imaging technique to reconstruct and display the site and spatial orientation of ventricular septal defects as part of a complex cardiac anomaly in fetuses and to determine whether any advantage is offered by this three-dimensional evaluation over conventional fetal echocardiography. Methods and Materials: After 2-D fetal echocardiographic examination 3-D multiplanar datasets of the beating fetal heart using Spatio-Temporal Image Correlation (STIC) were collected prospectively in 23 fetuses with various types of vemt…