Staged and consistent perinatal diagnostics of congenital heart disease

The principles of organization of perinatal diagnostics of congenital heart disease (CHD) carried out by the advisory group of the cardiac center are presented. 1 601 pregnant women at the age from 18 to 40 years and 20 to 38-39 weeks of gestation were examined. 657 (41%) of them had risk factors of CHD development, while 336 (21%) were diagnosed with congenital heart disease. Only 19.1% of pregnant women with CHD fetus had risk factors, with no such relation observed in other women. Surgical repair was performed in 56.4% of cases during a newborn period. A three-stage system of perinatal diagnostics of congenital heart disease performed by the cardiac center's experts over prenatal and neonatal periods allows providing consistency and efficiency of rendering assistance to newborns with congenital heart disease.