Impact of fetal echocardiography on trends in disease patterns and outcomes of congenital heart disease in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common developmental malformation and the leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. The introduction of fetal echocardiography has made prenatal diagnosis of CHD possible.

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the impact of fetal echocardiography on the changing disease patterns and outcomes of CHD.

Hybrid palliation for right atrial isomerism associated with obstructive total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage.

A twenty-four-day-old girl, who was prematurely born at 36 weeks of gestation, and weighed 2.2 kg, and diagnosed with right atrial isomerism, functionally single ventricle, bilateral superior vena cava (SVC) and obstructive supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) draining to the junction between the right SVC and the right atrium, underwent a hybrid procedure in the operating room, which consisted of pulmonary artery banding, ductus ligation and stenting of the draining vein of TAPVD. Obstruction at the drainage site of TAPVD was initially relieved after stenting, but, one month after the procedure, the distal end of the stent became stenotic and she received bilateral sutureless repair of TAPVD.