Why the study?
Can cross-sectional echocardiography accurately detect cardiac malformations in neonates exposed to maternal lithium?
Can cross-sectional echocardiography accurately detect cardiac malformations in neonates exposed to maternal lithium?
Cross-sectional echocardiography provides an accurate, noninvasive method to screen for lithium-induced cardiac malformations in exposed newborns.
Supports noninvasive neonatal screening for lithium-associated cardiac malformations; leaves open the diagnostic accuracy and predictive.
Cross-sectional echocardiography was used to evaluate two neonates whose mothers ingested lithium during pregnancy. In one infant, Ebstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve was identified. In the other infant cross-sectional echocardiography provided reassurance that the infant did not have Ebstein's anomaly. Cross-sectional echocardiographic screening of newborns exposed to lithium during gestation can provide highly accurate, noninvasive assessment of the presence or absence of lithium-induced cardiac malformations.
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