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Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Center
Fetal Echocardiography:
Fetal echocardiography is a specialized ultrasound study that focuses on the fetal heart. This detailed ultrasound examination looks at the fetal cardiac structures, blood flow through the fetal heart, and fetal cardiac rhythm.
Fetal echocardiograms are noninvasive and are performed by qualified, registered sonographers and interpreted by a perinatologist specializing in the field of fetal echocardiography.
Indications for fetal echocardiography include, but are not limited to:
- previous child born with a congenital cardiac defect
- maternal/paternal history of cardiovascular disease
- maternal pregestational diabetes
- fetal arrhythmia
- maternal collagen vascular disorder (lupus)
- medication or teratogen exposure
- fetus with extracardiac abnormalities
- fetus with a chromosomal abnormality
- abnormal four chamber view on ultrasound
Coordination of appointments with a pediatric cardiologist is provided for those patients requiring additional cardiology services. Our department works in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Pediatric Cardiology department to offer the very best in prenatal care to a mother and her unborn child.
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