Evaluation of the sphericity index of the fetal heart during middle and late pregnancy using fetalHQ

OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility of the fetal heart quantitative technique (fetalHQ) for evaluating the sphericity index (SI) of the fetal heart during middle and late pregnancy.

METHODS: Ninety-six normal fetuses in middle and late gestation who underwent systemic ultrasound examination in the Department of Ultrasound of the Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital of Hunan Province in November 2020 were enrolled, and dynamic images of the four-chamber view of the fetal heart were collected. The correlation between the global sphericity index (GSI), ventricular 24-segment SI, and gestational age (GA) was analyzed, and the differences between the left and right ventricular 24-segment SI were compared.

RESULTS: The success rate of fetalHQ analysis was 93.75%. There was no significant linear correlation between GSI and ventricular 24-segment SI and GA (all ps > .05). The differences in SI between segments 1 and 9 and 15 and 24 in the left and right ventricles were statistically significant (all ps < .05), while the differences in SI between segments 10 and 14 were not statistically significant (all ps > .05). In segments 1-9, the SI of the right ventricle was smaller than that of the left ventricle, indicating that the right ventricle was significantly more spherical than the left ventricle. In segments 15-24, the opposite was true.

CONCLUSION: FetalHQ is a simple and reliable method for evaluating the GSI and 24-segment SI of the left and right ventricles. It can provide some theoretical basis for the clinical quantitative evaluation of fetal heart geometry and lay a foundation for the quantitative evaluation of fetal heart function in cases of structural and functional abnormalities.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians - 35(2022), 25 vom: 06. Dez., Seite 8006-8011

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luo, Yingchun [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Long, Can [VerfasserIn]
Kuang, Haiyan [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Meiping [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Yamei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Meixiang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Fetal heart
FetalHQ
Journal Article
Sphericity index

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Date Completed 23.11.2022

Date Revised 23.11.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14767058.2021.1940934

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327095563