Fetal echo cardiography: the state of the art of the state of the heart

Fetal echocardiography has reached adulthood.After several attempts in the 1960s and early 1970s when fetal heart movements were first visualized by primitive A-scan ultrasound 1 or by using the M-mode technique 2 , the birth of fetal echocardiography finally happened in the late 1970s.Several authors simultaneously described the cross-sectional appearance of the fetal heart using the first real-time equipment [3][4][5][6][7] .Only in Greek mythology was Athena born from Zeus's head, otherwise newborns have a father and a mother.Pediatric cardiologists and obstetricians interested in ultrasound are the parents and pioneers of this new field and both were present at the different centers in which fetal echocardiography was born, for example, C.