VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECTS - A DILEMMA IN COUNSELLING!

Dr Gary Pritchard, Brisbane Ultrasound for Women, Spring Hill, Queensland.

Accurate detection of defects in the fetal cardiac interventricular septum (VSD) is an important aspect of fetal morphological scanning. Congenital heart defect (CHD) is the most common congenital defect, with an incidence of 2.5 per 1000 for major CHD (as defined) in NSW (1) and all CHD at a rate of 3.8 per 1000 births in Europe (2). Isolated VSD is the most common of these defects occurring in about one third (38%, 642/1694) of the European cases of CHD investigated between mid 1996 and the end of 1998.

Citation
Gary P. Ventricular Septal Defects – a dilemma in counselling! ASUM Bulletin 2001.4:14-16.