Recommendations for fetal echocardiography in twin pregnancy in 2016

Katarzyna Leszczyńska; Krzysztof Preis; Maria Respondek-Liberska; Maciej Słodki; Dennis Wood; Stuart Weiner; Ulli Gembruch; Giusseppe Rizzo; Reuven Achiron; Jay D Pruetz; Mark Sklansky; Bettina Cuneo; Birgit Arabin; Isaac Blickstein

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Prenatal Cardiology

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Recommendations for fetal echocardiography in twin pregnancy in 2016

Katarzyna Leszczyńska

¹

,

Krzysztof Preis

¹

,

Maria Respondek-Liberska

^{2, 3}

,

Maciej Słodki

^{3, 4}

,

Dennis Wood

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,

Stuart Weiner

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,

Ulli Gembruch

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,

Giusseppe Rizzo

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,

Reuven Achiron

⁹

,

Jay D Pruetz

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Mark Sklansky

¹¹

,

Bettina Cuneo

¹²

,

Birgit Arabin

¹³

,

Isaac Blickstein

¹⁴

Department of Obstetrics, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
Department of Diagnoses and Prevention Fetal Malformations, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Department of Prenatal Cardiology, Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
Institute of Health Sciences, The State School of Higher Professional Education in Płock, Poland
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, University Bonn Medical School, Bonn, Germany
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Università Roma Tor Vergata, Ospedela Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tel-Hashomer, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Then Fetal Heart Program, Colorado Fetal Care Center, Colorado Institute for Maternal Fetal Health, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Center for Mother and Child, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaplan Medical Center, 76100 Rehovot and the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Prenat Cardio 2016 Jan; 6(1):6-15

Online publish date: 2019/08/20

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Progress in the fields of fetal cardiology and fetal surgery have been seen not only in singleton pregnancies but also in multiple pregnancies. Proper interpretation of prenatal echocardiography is critical to clinical decision making, family counseling and perinatal management for obstetricians, maternal fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists and pediatric cardiologists. Fetal echocardiography is one of the most challenging and time-consuming prenatal examinations to perform, especially in multiple gestations. Performing just the basic fetal exam in twin gestations may take an hour or more. Thus, it is not practical to perform this exam in all cases of multiple gestations. Therefore our review and recommendations are related to fetal echocardiography in twin gestation.

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Recommendations for fetal echocardiography in twin pregnancy in 2016

Katarzyna Leszczyńska 1 , Krzysztof Preis 1 , Maria Respondek-Liberska 2, 3 , Maciej Słodki 3, 4 , Dennis Wood 5 , Stuart Weiner 6 , Ulli Gembruch 7 , Giusseppe Rizzo 8 , Reuven Achiron 9 , Jay D Pruetz 10 , Mark Sklansky 11 , Bettina Cuneo 12 , Birgit Arabin 13 , Isaac Blickstein 14

fetal echocardiography, twin pregnancy, TTTS, TRAP, TAPS, SIUGR