Dr. Michael Walsh, pediatric cardiologist, explains what happens after a mom is referred for a fetal echocardiogram.
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TRANSCRIPT: When patients that are referred to see me as a Pediatric Cardiologist, it's usually because of something that happened in their OB visit. Whenever mothers go in for their anatomy scan or their screening ultrasound around 18 weeks or so, sometimes the OB doctors will pick up something that gives them concern that a heart defect may be present.
Also sometimes they'll recognize risk factors that may make it more likely that a mom has a heart defect.
So in either one of those cases, patients are referred to me for what we call a fetal echocardiogram.
And what that means is we use our state-of-the-art equipment here- an ultrasound machine just like in the OB's office- where we do a detailed scan of the baby's heart. I would look at all the chambers of the heart, watch the blood flow through the heart and we try to assess to see if there's any problems with the structure of the baby's heart or the baby's heart rhythm.
