Contribution of Fetal Magnetocardiography to Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, and Treatment of Fetal Arrhythmia.

ABSTRACT: Background Fetal echocardiography has been the mainstay of fetal arrhythmia diagnosis; however, fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG) has recently become clinically available. We sought to determine to what extent fMCG contributed to the precision and accuracy of fetal arrhythmia diagnosis and risk assessment, and in turn, how this altered pregnancy management. Methods and Results We reviewed fMCG tracings and medical records of 215 pregnancies referred to the Biomagnetism Laboratory, UW-Madison, over the last 10 years, because of fetal arrhythmia or risk of arrhythmia. We compared referral diagnosis and treatment with fMCG diagnosis using a rating scale and restricted our review to the 144 subjects from the tachycardia, bradycardia/AV block, and familial long QT syndrome categories. Additional

SUBMITTER: Wacker-Gussmann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9375504 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature