[Prenatal diagnosis of fetal cardiac defect].

Introduction: The prevalence of congenital cardiac defects is 8 per 1000 neonates, and it's different if high or low risk populations are studied. The fetal ultrasonographic increase prenatal detection but varies from 7 to 90%.

Objectives: To know the prevalence of fetal cardiopathy and detection in high risk pregnancies.

[Usefulness of Doppler ultrasonography to detect fetal anemia in rh alloimmunized pregnancies].

Background: pregnant women with Rh alloimmunization (RhA) are submitted to invasive procedures to assess fetal anemia (FA). Recently a non-invasive approach to FA diagnosis has been proposed using Doppler ultrasound (DU) to identify increased peak velocity of systolic blood flow (Vm) in the middle cerebral artery (MCA).

Methodology: eleven Rh alloimmunized pregnant women with serum red-cell antibody titers > 1:16 were included.

[Prenatal diagnosis of pentalogy of Cantrell associated to bilateral cleft lip. A case report].

The pentalogy of Cantrell is a rare congenital syndrome characterized by deficiency of the anterior diaphragm and defects of abdominal wall, the pericardium, the lower sternum, as well as congenital intracardiac abnormalities. It has usually a poor prognosis, but most cases have had incomplete variants of this syndrome, so it is important to make a prenatal diagnosis to determine the size of the wall defect and to establish a multidisciplinary management. Less than 90 cases have been reported in the world literature.