Population
945 pregnant women at 16 to 40 weeks' gestation, identifying 39 fetuses with cardiac arrhythmia.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1 day to 8 years (mean 1 year and 6 months) after birth
Authors
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May guide prenatal counseling in fetal arrhythmias; leaves open need for prospective studies on bradycardia management.
Fetal tachycardia can often be successfully managed with transplacental antiarrhythmic therapy, whereas fetal bradycardia, especially when associated with structural heart disease or hydrops, carries a high mortality rate.
Yasuki Maeno (1991) studied this question.
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