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Case report and literature review: fetal diagnosis of vascular ring with circumflex right aortic arch and unique aortic arch branching pattern

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Circumflex right aortic arch is a rare aortic arch anomaly where the arch extends in a retro-esophageal pattern with a left-sided descending thoracic aorta. A 33-year-old G4P3 patient underwent fetal echocardiography after obstetric ultrasound showed concern for double aortic arch.

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Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis, associated anomalies and pregnancy outcomes of fetal right aortic arch

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

RAA features were characterised by comparing prenatal ultrasound data with anatomical casting results after pregnancy termination or postnatal imaging and surgical intervention to analyse the prognosis and misdiagnoses of fetal RAA.ResultsOf the 157 fetal RAA cases, 50 (31.8%) cases were isolated RAA and 107 (68.2%) cases were nonisolated RAA.

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Expanding role of absolute zero fluoroscopy atrial septal defect closure: a single-center experience

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

IntroductionZero-fluoroscopy, exclusively ultrasound-guided atrial septal defect (ASD) catheter closure has been reported. Complex cases included patients with large defects (25mm), multiple or fenestrated ASDs, deficient posterior-inferior rim <3mm, deficient retro-aortic rim <5mm, pulmonary hypertension, septal malalignment, and pregnancy.

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Phonocardiography based pulse wave velocity system for non-occlusive assessment of arterial stiffness

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Ultrasound measured distensibility assessments confirmed the reliability of our PCG approach in reflecting central arterial stiffness dynamics, particularly at the aortic level. PWVcarotidtoe: 10.623.86 m/s) with age as a significant predictor (PWVcarotidfemoral: r2=0.45; PWVcarotidtoe: r2=0.28, p<0.05).

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Fetal aortic valvuloplasty

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Fetal aortic valvuloplasty is considered for fetuses with severe valvar aortic stenosis and echocardiographic features suggesting a risk of progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome. So if progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome can be prevented by fetal aortic valvuloplasty, that would be theoretically a great boon.

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Using 3D ultrasound to improve monitoring of dangerous aneurysms

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

During her doctoral research, Esther Maas investigated the use of new ultrasound techniques to image dangerous aortic aneurysms for patient-specific care.

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Impact of heart rate, aortic compliance and stroke volume on the aortic regurgitation fraction studied in an ex vivo pig model

Open Heart

Introduction Drug therapy to reduce the regurgitation fraction (RF) of high-grade aortic regurgitation (AR) by increasing heart rate (HR) is generally recommended. However, chronic HR reduction in HFREF patients can significantly improve aortic compliance and thereby potentially decrease RF. cm 2 hole in one aortic cusp.

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