[Delivery site for fœtus with congenital heart disease : CHU of Liège experience and international recommandations].

Rev Med Liege

Service de Cardiologie Pédiatrique, CHU Notre-Dame des Bruyères, Chênée, Belgique.

Published: January 2018

Optimal choice of delivery site after a diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) improves neonatal mortality and morbidity. We report the CHU of Liège experience and review the international recommendations. Between 2011 and 2016, 54 fetuses were diagnosed with CHD in our service. Retrospectively we estimated the appropriateness of the site of delivery considering the postnatal outcome. We confronted our experience with the recent international recommendations for in utero transfer to a tertiary center. The latter are based on the risk of hemodynamic instability at birth but differ for the ductal-dependent cardiopathy. The postanatal evolution and the low emergency transfer rate (4 %) in our series demonstrate the quality of our policy. We propose to validate the French transfer in utero recommendations for our obstetrical department, especially for ductal-dependent cardiopathy.

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