"Fetal Heart" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The heart of the fetus of any viviparous animal. It refers to the heart in the postembryonic period and is differentiated from the embryonic heart (HEART/embryology) only on the basis of time.
| Descriptor ID |
D005318
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A07.541.278 A16.378.303
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| Concept/Terms |
Fetal Heart- Fetal Heart
- Fetal Hearts
- Heart, Fetal
- Hearts, Fetal
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fetal Heart" by people in Profiles.
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Survival to Hospital Discharge in the Fetus With Moderate to Severe Mitral Regurgitation Either in Isolation or in Combination With Aortic Valve Stenosis or Atresia, a Fetal Heart Society Collaborative Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Aug 05; 14(15):e041677.
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Management of fetal cardiac resuscitation during fetal cardiac intervention. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2024 10; 64(4):550-552.
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Current Understanding of Indications, Technical Aspects and Outcomes of Fetal Cardiac Interventions. Interv Cardiol Clin. 2024 Jul; 13(3):319-331.
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Fetal left and right ventricular strain parameters using speckle tracking in congenital heart diseases. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Jun; 40(6):1235-1243.
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Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography in fetuses with critical aortic stenosis before and after fetal aortic valvuloplasty. Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2024 08; 310(2):817-824.
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Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries: Fetal Diagnosis, Associations, and Postnatal Outcome: A Fetal Heart Society Research Collaborative Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 06 06; 12(11):e029706.
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Guidelines and Recommendations for Performance of the Fetal Echocardiogram: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 07; 36(7):679-723.
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Fetal growth of left-sided structures and postnatal surgical outcome in borderline left heart varies by cardiac phenotype. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2022 05; 59(5):642-650.
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Cardiac Size, Shape, and Ventricular Contractility in Fetuses at Sea Level With an Estimated Weight Less-than 10th Centile. J Ultrasound Med. 2022 Nov; 41(11):2703-2714.
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Left heart hypoplasia in the fetus: Echocardiographic predictors of outcome. Prenat Diagn. 2022 04; 42(4):447-460.