Key result
A combination of abnormal findings, rather than a single reliable marker, provides a more accurate assessment of fetal cardiac function.
Why the study?
Dynamic adaptation makes defining fetal cardiac function difficult, and no single sign has emerged as a reliable marker of dysfunction.
Accurate assessment of fetal cardiac function requires evaluating a combination of abnormal findings rather than relying on a single marker.
Supports multimodal fetal cardiac assessment over single metrics; leaves open validation of optimal composite scores in prospective studies.
The fetal heart adapts dynamically to nutrient and oxygen needs from all fetal organs. These continuous changes make it difficult to define normal/abnormal cardiac function based only on the evaluation of a few cycles. Many signs of fetal cardiac dysfunction have been suggested; however, very few can stand as true manifestations of cardiac deterioration, and none has emerged as a single reliable marker of cardiac dysfunction. It is the combination of abnormal findings that provides a more accurate assessment of the status of the fetal heart function.
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Hernández‐Andrade et al. (2024) conducted a review in Fetal cardiac dysfunction. Evaluation of fetal cardiac function was evaluated. A combination of abnormal findings, rather than a single reliable marker, provides a more accurate assessment of fetal cardiac function.
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