Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Infants, Prenatally and Postnatally

Conditions: Speckle Tracking, Fetus Fetus, Neonate, Structural Heart Disease, Fetal Growth Restriction

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 Years – N/A

Healthy volunteers: 1

Enrollment: 201

Sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center

Summary

Comparison of prenatal and postnatal cardiac function assessed by echocardiography using pulsed wave Doppler, Tissue Doppler and speckle tracking (strain and strain rate) between foetuses/neonates with a structural heart disease, with an fetal growth restriction (FGR) and healthy fetuses/neonates.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:Informed consentSufficient command of the Dutch languageA pregnancy with a fetus with a structural heart disease, orA pregnancy with a fetus with an FGR (defined as: weight and/or abdominal circumference p<10, or deviating growth (weight and/or abdominal circumference) > 20 percentiles, and Doppler abnormalities in either the umbilical artery, the uterine artery or the medial cerebral artery), orA pregnancy with a healthy fetus (without any major fetal congenital abnormality)Exclusion Criteria:Multiple pregnancyA pregnancy with known fetal genetic abnormalityA pregnancy with other major fetal congenital abnormalities

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