Does longitudinal displacement fractional shortening correlate with global strain and identify cardiac abnormalities in fetal hearts?
Longitudinal displacement fractional shortening computed from 2D fetal echocardiography correlates with global strain and can identify fetal cardiac abnormalities.
The RV and LV longitudinal displacement fractional shortening can be computed from 2-dimensional images of the 4-chamber view and correlated with global strain. The longitudinal displacement fractional shortening was significantly greater for the RV than the LV and was abnormal in fetuses with RV and LV cardiac abnormalities.
DeVore et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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