Recommended views for fetal echocardiography
Normal Cardiac Situs
Normal Cardiac Rate and Rhythm
The Outflow Tracts - Aorta - Pulmonary Artery
Four and Five Chamber Views
The Ductus Arteriosus
Three Vessel View
The Pulmonary Veins
Short Axis View of Great Vessels
The Myocardium / Pericardium
Longitudinal / Sagittal views of the outflow tracts.
The Inferior Vena Cava + Superior Vena Cava
The Valves of the Heart
Coronary Sinus / Arteries
M-mode Echocardiography
Foramen Ovale
Color Doppler Imaging
Azygous Vein
Normal Variants and Pitfalls
Video images of the normal and abnormal heart
Week of Gestation
Length of Embryo
Cardiac event
1-2
1.5 mm
No heart or great vessel
4
2 mm
Single median cardiac tube
5
4 mm
Bilobed atrium
Beginning of circulation
7.5 mm
AV orifices; 3 chamber heart
6
8.5 – 13 mm
Septum secundum: complete inferior septum; divided truncus arteriosus
7
20
Four chamber heart
Normal Fetal Circulation :
