Authors: Katsuyuki Sekii Hiroaki Itoh Tsutomu Ogata Satoru Iwashima
Publish Date: 2012/05/23
Volume: 286, Issue: 4, Pages: 1079-1080
Abstract
The clinical course of fetal hydrothorax is highly variable between individuals and its prenatal management varies from waiting and close observation to therapeutic intervention in utero or the termination of pregnancy To date the management of fetal hydrothorax has depended on the gestational age rate of progression and development of hydrops 1 2 3 partly because no appropriate indicator for clinical intervention is available before the onset of nonimmune hydrops fetalis NIHFTissue Doppler imaging TDI has been shown to be useful in assessing the cardiac function of fetuses with a normal 4 as well as pathological condition such as hydrops fetalis 5 6 So far few studies have investigated the longitudinal cardiac function in fetal hydrothorax by TDI until hydropic change and it has yet to be clarified whether serial TDI can provide clinical information concerning the indication for clinical intervention We serially evaluated the fetal cardiac
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