Children's Hospital Los Angeles opened its new fetal cardiac clinic.
The 3,000-square-foot clinic has three scanning rooms dedicated to fetal cardiology. It offers fetal echocardiograms, 3D/4D ultrasound, fetal magnetic resonance imaging, congenital heart disease diagnosis and counseling, fetal congestive heart failure evaluation and management, fetal arrhythmia diagnosis and management, fetal cardiac interventions, cardiothoracic surgery consultations, and prenatal to postnatal care integration, according to a Feb. 13 hospital press release.
More than 20% of the center's heart surgery patients are neonates, according to the release.