The Evaluation of the Four-Chamber Cardiac Dissection Method of the Fetal Heart as an Alternative to Conventional Inflow-Outflow Dissection in Small Gestational-Age Fetuses
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)(2022)
摘要
The examination of very small fetal hearts requires special equipment and a specialist that are not available in many general pathology laboratories. Compared to conventional examination, the four-chamber cardiac dissection (4CCD) method can be performed by any pathologist using instruments generally available in pathology services. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of the 4CCD method in the examination of small fetal hearts using post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging (pm-MRI) at 7T as the standard. Twelve fetuses with gestational ages between 13 and 19 weeks have been included in this study. All fetuses underwent pm-MRI examination prior to pathologic examination. The 4CCD method was used for the cardiac examination in all cases following the same guidelines for cardiac sectioning. The 4CCD was able to identify all cardiac anatomic structures as compared to pm-MRI at 7T, demonstrating a sensibility of 95.8% (95% CI, 94.5-95.8) and specificity of 100% (95% CI, 32.3-100). The overall accuracy in identifying cardiac anatomic structures was 95.8% (95% CI, 93.4-95.8). Additionally, the 4CCD method was able to detect cardiac anomalies with an overall diagnostic accuracy of 91% (95% CI, 85.8-94.2), sensibility of 67.6% (95% CI, 54.5-75.3), and specificity of 97% (95% CI, 93.7-99) as compared to pm-MRI at 7T. The four-chamber view dissection method can be considered as an alternative to the conventional inflow-outflow dissection method in selected cases.
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magnetic resonance imaging,microscopy,macroscopy,heart defects,congenital,fetus diagnostic imaging,fetus pathology,high-field magnetic resonance imaging
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