Re: early fetal cardiac eco
From: Terry J DuBose (tjdubose@juno.com)
Wed Oct 20 07:38:22 2004
Wolfgang, I did get the three video clips and forwarded them to OBGYN.net
for formatting for the EAB. I have not heard back from them yet... I
will check from the office today to see what the status is. thanks,
Terry
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:59:59 -0500 wolfgang.moroder@tin.it (Wolfgang
Moroder, M.D.) writes:
> Dear Terry
> I have tried to send you an e-mail but it seems that the anti spam
> devices don't allow it to go through.
>
> I'd like to post as an informal case three videoclips for a total
> of
> about 5 MB.
>
> The first color Doppler videclip shows the fetal heart at 12 weeks
> and
> that looks normal as far as it can be investigated at this stage.
> The second and third clips are of a chromosomically normal fetus at
> 14
> and 16 weeks. There is clear evidence already at 14 weeks of an
> unbalanced AV canal with a single common atrioventricular valve
> orifice.
> The first frames of the clip show a fairly normal three vessel
> view.
> There seems to be an evolution towards a more severely
> disproportion
> between the two ventricles and a single ventricle heart looking at
> the
> 16 weeks clip. The unbalanced form of AV canal is more common in
> chromosomically normal fetuses. The pregnancy is still ongoing and
> the
> patient is waiting for a more conclusive scan and councelling at 20
> weeks.
>
> For better viewing of the clips I suggest to load them from
> Quicktime.
> To my knowledge Quicktime compared to Mediaplayer has the advantage
> to
> allow a frame to frame vision of the videoclips using the right and
> left
> arrow on the computer's keeboard. The spacebar can be used as a
> stop
> and play command while control-L is a shortcut to make the clip
> loop.
> Analising color Doppler videoclips by a frame to frame method is
> almost
> essential because shifts in colors are very quick and can't be
> observed
> easyly even by a trained eye.
>
> If you consider this material interesting for publishing as a
> informal
> case I'd be very happy to send it. Please let me know how I can
> upload
> it to the OBGYN.NET server.
> Best regards
> Wolfgang
>
> --
> Wolfgang Moroder, MD
> Prenatal Unit
> Bolzano General Hospital Italy
>
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