Is analysis of physiological late gestation ventricular-arterial disproportion futile?

ConclusionRemnant risk for coarctation in a foetal population with physiological late gestation asymmetry is < 5%. Prenatal counselling can be reassuring since the majority of infants will have a normal heart. However early cardiac evaluation of these newborns remains recommended to exclude the rare event of postnatal coarctation in absence of prenatal predictive signs.
Source: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research