The recently developed innovative technique of Doppler color flow mapping permits real time visualization of blood flow patterns superimposed on two-dimensional echocardiographic images of the heart.1,2 This study demonstrates, for the first time, the usefulness of this technique in characterizing fetal cardiac dynamics.
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