FETAL HEART SIZE MEASURED IN VIVO BY ULTRASOUND

1 July 1970

journal article
Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics

Vol. 46 (1) , 25-27
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.46.1.25

Abstract

In the course of routine, two-dimensional ultrasonic echoscopy, echograms have been obtained which show the outline of the fetal heart and interventricular septum. Measurements of the echograms show the fetal heart to occupy 21% of the cross-sectional area of the chest at its widest transverse diameter and to occupy 52% of the transverse diameter of the chest at the same level. The ratio of the tranverse diameter of the left ventricle to that of the right (L.V. ÷ R.V.) is 1.23. The fetal heart grows at the same rate as the fetal chest in the last 8 weeks of pregnancy.

Keywords

ULTRASONOGRAPHY

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