Friedman Alan H, Kleinman Charles S, Copel Joshua A
Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8064, USA.
Prenat Diagn. 2002 Apr;22(4):280-4. doi: 10.1002/pd.305.
There has been tremendous development in the field of prenatal diagnosis of cardiac disease in the last 30 years. Early work centered on the technical aspects of providing an accurate assessment of cardiac structure and function. Techniques of fetal cardiac screening have been developed and utilized throughout the world. More recently, investigators have begun to explore the ramifications of fetal cardiac diagnosis by assessing measures of outcome. In this article, the field of fetal echocardiography, as a screening tool for identifying congenital heart disease, and its impact on disease outcome is reviewed.
在过去30年里，心脏病的产前诊断领域取得了巨大进展。早期工作集中在提供心脏结构和功能准确评估的技术方面。胎儿心脏筛查技术已在全球范围内得到开发和应用。最近，研究人员已开始通过评估预后指标来探索胎儿心脏诊断的影响。在本文中，将对作为先天性心脏病筛查工具的胎儿超声心动图领域及其对疾病预后的影响进行综述。
