Fetal Cardiac Cine MRI with Doppler US Gating in Complex Congenital Heart Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To apply Doppler US (DUS)-gated fetal cardiac cine MRI in clinical routine and investigate diagnostic performance in complex congenital heart disease (CHD) compared with that of fetal echocardiography.

Materials and methods

In this prospective study (May 2021 to March 2022), women with fetuses with CHD underwent fetal echocardiography and DUS-gated fetal cardiac MRI on the same day. For MRI, balanced steady-state free precession cine images were acquired in the axial and optional sagittal and/or coronal orientations. Overall image quality was assessed on a four-point Likert scale (from 1 = nondiagnostic to 4 = good image quality). The presence of abnormalities in 20 fetal cardiovascular features was independently assessed by using both modalities. The reference stand

SUBMITTER: Vollbrecht TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9969216 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature