Why the study?
Does fetal echocardiography accurately correlate with postmortem morphological findings in fetuses with severe tricuspid valve malformations?
Population
19 fetuses with severe malformation of the tricuspid valve diagnosed by fetal echocardiography that died in…
Comparison
Fetal echocardiography vs Postmortem examination (necropsy)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 4 weeks between echocardiography and necropsy
Authors
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Supports fetal echocardiography for tricuspid valve assessment; leaves open larger prospective validation against pathology before changing practice.
Does fetal echocardiography accurately correlate with postmortem morphological findings in fetuses with severe tricuspid valve malformations?
Fetal echocardiography is a reliable technique for differentiating variants of severe tricuspid valve disease and predicting quantitative factors related to outcome when compared to postmortem findings.
Oberhoffer et al. (1992) studied this question.
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