Clinical Study

Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Diseases: One-Year Survey Performing a Screening Protocol in a Single Reference Center in Brazil

Table 1

Classification system of fetal heart diseases used according to complexity of the heart anatomical abnormalities.

ClassificationFetal heart diseases

ComplexHeterotaxy or atrial isomerism, atresia or severe hypoplasia of a valve or chamber (hypoplastic left heart syndrome, pulmonary atresia, tricuspid atresia, aortic atresia, mitral atresia, and Ebstein’s anomaly), and abnormalities of the valve inlet or outlet (complete atrioventricular septal defect, truncus arteriosus, double inlet left or right ventricle, and double outlet left or right ventricle congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries)

SignificantTransposition of the great vessels, tetralogy of Fallot, large ventricular septal defect, coarctation of the aorta, aortopulmonary window, critical aortic or pulmonary stenosis, partial atrioventricular septal defect, total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, and tricuspid valve dysplasia (no Ebstein’s anomaly)

MinorSmall ventricular septal defect and less severe aortic or pulmonary stenosis

OthersDysrhythmias, cardiomyopathies, secondary dextrocardia/levocardia, pulmonary sequestration, and restrictive ductus arteriosus

This classification was adapted from Hunter et al. [17] and Wren et al. [18].