Evaluation of referral indications for fetal echocardiography in pregnant women referred to Echocardiography unit of Masoumeh Hospital in the winter of 2018.

Embryo echocardiography is a technique for the detection of embryonic anomalies. The aim of this study was to Evaluation of referral indications for fetal echocardiography in pregnant women referred to Echocardiography unit of Masoumeh Hospital in the winter of 2018.

This is a cross-sectional study. In this study, 230 pregnant women entered the checklist. Data was then analyzed using SPSS software version 22.

The most common indication of referral for embryonic echocardiography, suspicion of CHD in ultrasound (heart failure) (21.7%) was the dominance of focal ecchymosis and the lowest incidence of maternal diseases (2.2%). 91.7% of the diagnosis was reported after normal echocardiography and 8.3% abnormal. There was a significant correlation between fetal heart rhythm and normal or abnormal diagnosis after echocardiography (p = 0.02). Among maternal age variables (p= 0.22), pregnancy time (p = 0.97), fetal age (week) =0.76), fetal sex (p= 0.30), fetal heart rate (p = 0.08), NT size (p = 0.24), maternal diabetes mellitus (p = 0.98), condition status (p = 0.93), history of congenital the family (p= 0.13) and specific disease in the mother (p= 0.98) were not associated with the diagnosis after echocardiography.

Embryonic echocardiography is a non-invasive method suitable for early diagnosis of congenital heart disease, which is suitable not only for high-risk pregnancies, but also for low-risk pregnancies.