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Spectrum and features of congenital heart disease in Xi'an, China as detected using fetal echocardiography

Y. J. Wei, Liu, B. M., Zhou, Y. H., Jia, X. H., Mu, S. G., Gao, X. R., Yang, M. L., and Zhang, Y., Spectrum and features of congenital heart disease in Xi'an, China as detected using fetal echocardiography, vol. 13, pp. 9412-9420, 2014.

This study aimed to investigate the spectrum and features of congenital heart disease (CHD) in Xi’an, China using fetal echocardiography. All pregnant women referred for fetal echocardiography underwent a systematic fetal echocardiographic examination. Each case of complex defects was diagnosed according to the predominant pathophysiology, and the overall frequency of each defect was recorded and classified according to its location in the fetal heart. CHD was diagnosed in 195 fetuses.

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