Fetal heart ultrasound is used to view your unborn baby’s heart, assess fetal heart circulation, flow of blood in the various chambers of heart and fetal heartbeat.

Normal Fetal Circulation. The heart and its blood vessels start to develop at the end of the third week of conception and the heart begins to beat in the fourth week.

Some of the leading experts in fetal cardiology are based at Children's National Health System in D.C. They can detect and even treat heart problems in babies weeks before birth.One of those ...

Diabetes during pregnancy—whether pre-existing or gestational—may lead to increased fat accumulation around the fetal heart, according to a new meta-analysis published in Biomolecules and ...

South Carolina’s abortion restrictions apply when electrical impulses are first detected by diagnostic medical equipment — generally around six weeks, the state Supreme Court ruled, handing a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an opinion upholding the state's "fetal heartbeat" law, banning abortions after six weeks. Today's opinion addressed the narrow ...

The atlas includes 75 types of heart cells, including cell types in the heart's valves and the muscles that fuel its beats that have never been seen before. It shows how these and other cells ...

Abortion provider Planned Parenthood stealth-edited its language about fetal development, now asserting that there is no heartbeat between weeks five and six of gestation. The changes made to the ...

Source Reference: Hedermann G, et al "Adverse obstetric outcomes in pregnancies with major fetal congenital heart defects" JAMA Pediatr 2024; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.5073.

The initiation of the first heart beat via the primitive heart tube begins at gestational day 22, followed by active fetal blood circulation by the end of week 4,” according to a 2019 review ...

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has successfully performed a historic fetal surgery to remove a heart tumor, saving the life of a baby from Tennessee. When Brailey Valenzuela was 24 weeks ...