First Guidelines for Managing Fetal Heart Abnormalities The American Heart Association has released the first scientific statement on current and recommended practices of diagnosis and management of ...

A research group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) have developed a novel system that can automatically detect abnormalities in fetal hearts in real-time ...

As we enter heart awareness month, it’s important to remember our littlest hearts. Congenital heart disease is the most common fetal malformation and affects about eight in 1,000 babies born in the ...

Ninety-nine percent of global newborn deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where pregnant women often struggle to access adequate fetal monitoring. In Tanzania, with 24 neonatal ...

Fetuses with increased nuchal thickness (visualized on fetal NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY assessment), with or without chromosome abnormalities, have an increased risk of developing cardiac abnormalities, ...

Worldwide, there are over 3 million stillbirths and approximately 3 million newborn deaths each year, most in low-resource countries. About 2 million of these deaths are due to intrapartum hypoxia.

Rainbow Children’s Heart Institute, Hyderabad, has reported one of the world’s first successful clinical cases of direct ...

SAN DIEGO -- Frequent fetal heart monitoring is not needed in every pregnant woman testing positive for anti-SSA/anti-Ro autoantibodies, but it's definitely advisable for those with high titers, ...

A new technology for measuring blood oxygen levels of a baby during labor--expected to provide information useful for preventing birth complications--offers no apparent benefit, report researchers in ...

In Perinatal Cardiology, fetal cardiology experts provide key information on tools for fetal evaluation through echocardiography / cardiac ultrasonography, with a primary focus on the nature and ...