At the beginning of this series, we suggested that watching 5 short videos would allow you to be able to assess the fetal heart for a significant abnormality in under 10 seconds.
Now it's time to put you and us to the test! Watch this short video and see how you do? As always, Thanks for watching Tony Filly We've reached the last of our 5 Steps! In this step, we will discuss a single finding that if present, has a 90% chance of an associated cardiac anomaly, whether you see it or not! Let's recap: In Step 1, we described a system to identify the chambers that works in all planes and orientations In Step 2, we found how to compare chamber sizes and use these to our advantage In Step 3, we used heart position to help us predominantly identify extracardiac abnormalites In Step 4, we used discussed using the cardiac axis to alert us to subtle extra and intracardiac anomalies As always, Thanks for watching Tony Filly We're finally over the hump and on the down slope. You're very close to mastering the fetal heart! In step 3, we departed a bit from looking inside the heart and used our 4-chamber view to help us detect chest masses. In this short step 4 video, we will learn how to quickly and efficiently assess the cardiac axis. A quick look at the axis can help us increase our sensitivity for detecting even more subtle chest masses as well as subtle cardiac defects. Thanks for watching, Tony Filly So far in Step 1, we covered a robust method for identifying chambers that works in all orientations and in Step 2, assessing the size of chambers to avoid missing intrinsic anomalies... particularly, the subtle ones. |
CategoriesAuthorDr. Roy Filly is professor emeritus of Radiology and Obsetrics/Gynecology at UCSF and co-founder of the fetal treatment program. Archives |