A professor from the USA tells how modern doctors study a baby's heart before it is born

Elena Sinkovskaya is not only a leading specialist at Eastern Virginia Medical University, but also a 2000 graduate of Pirogov University. This year the Professor Emeritus traditionally visited her alma mater to talk about new achievements in fetal surgery.

Even today doctors can diagnose fetal heart defects early in pregnancy, thus giving a chance to save a life even before birth. Prenatal examinations are now performed using 3D and 4D echocardiography, tissue Doppler and even artificial intelligence!

All this helps to look at the baby's heart in the smallest detail, “see” the movement of the heart muscle and instantly analyze the data to detect a defect.

Prenatal counseling is not just a medical procedure, but an important dialog between doctors and parents that helps prepare for delivery and plan the baby's treatment in advance.

Want to see how it was? Photos from the event – in our album!

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