Prenatal screening not only helps detect birth defects and chromosomal abnormalities early, but also helps doctors make ...

It could be the effect of climate change. Or perhaps it's due to fertility treatments, multiple births or a mother's own health condition. There is no doubt, though, that congenital heart disease - ...

The probe used in a fetal echocardiogram is called a transducer. It emits ultrasonic sound waves into your belly that create an image on the doctor’s screen. These sound waves are at a frequency that ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1% of births per year in the United States, according to the CDC. About one in four infants with a congenital heart ...

In Perinatal Cardiology, fetal cardiology experts provide key information on tools for fetal evaluation through echocardiography / cardiac ultrasonography, with a primary focus on the nature and ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - There's a fetal medicine location in Colorado Springs that is helping expecting mothers with a special ultrasound. Southern Colorado Maternal Fetal Medicine is the ...

A London-based research project has produced the most detailed ultrasound image yet of a 20-week-old fetus, The Telegraph reports. iFind (intelligent fetal imaging and diagnosis), an initiative led by ...

ATLANTA — New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows that heart rate monitoring is a feasible, accurate tool to check for heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Heart rate monitoring may be a crucial means of detecting rhythm abnormalities in the fetuses of pregnant ...