This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Jeanty, P. Articles by Grochal, F. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Jeanty, P. Articles by Grochal, F.

A Review of Findings in Fetal Cardiac Section Drawings

Part 4: Sagittal and Parasagittal Views

Inner Vision Women’s Ultrasound, Nashville, Tennessee USA (P.J.); Center for Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany (R.C.); and Gynekologicko Pôrodnícke Oddelenie, Ústredná Vojenská Nemocnica SNP Ru zomberok, Ru zomberok, Slovak Republic (F.G.).

Address correspondence to Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD, Inner Vision Women’s Ultrasound, 2201 Murphy Ave, Suite 203, Nashville, TN 37203 USA. E-mail: pjeanty{at}gmail.com

Objective. The goal of this presentation is to review some of the common and rare fetal heart abnormalities and to provide an easy approach to these findings with schematic drawings. In this presentation, we limit the scope to the sagittal and parasagittal sections. Methods. Over the past 10 years, we collected cases in which the common views of the heart were abnormal and the differential diagnoses that existed for each. This presentation shows the normal sonographic sections and then variations of these sections and the associated anomalies. We used illustrative drawings to present these findings, enabling us to point out the main sonographic features of abnormalities of the heart. Results. The work reviews 7 fetal heart abnormalities in schematic drawings. Conclusions. This short review highlights several of the anomalies that can be recognized on the common sonographic views. The drawings tend to simplify the findings but should serve as a basis for those doing fetal echocardiography when they encounter an unusual finding.

Key Words: drawings • fetal echocardiography • prenatal sonography