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Fetal diagnosis of common arterial trunk with interrupted aorticarch using color Power Doppler angiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Satoshi Yasukochi  and
Gengi Satomi
Satoshi Yasukochi*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Nagano Children's Hospital, Nagano, Japan
Gengi Satomi
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Nagano Children's Hospital, Nagano, Japan
*
Satoshi Yasukochi, MD, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Nagano Children's Hospital, 3100, Toyoshina, Toyoshina, Minami-Azumi-gun, Nagano 399–8288, Japan. Tel: +81–263–73–3700; Fax: +81–263–73–5432; E-mail naganoch@avisnet.ne.jp
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Abstract

We successfully visualized the brachiocephalic arteries and aortic arch in a fetus seen at 19 weeks of gestation with a common arterial trunk and interrupted aortic arch by means of color power Doppler angiography, a new diagnostic development of color Doppler echocardiography. Power Doppler imaging is more sensitive to the state of low flow in fetal vessels, thus providing better visualization of fetal vascular structures from an early gestational stage.

Keywords

Fetal diagnosispower Doppler angiographycommon arterial trunkinterrupted aortic arch
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 54 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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