Pediheart Podcast # 41: Fetal Heart Rate and Rhythm Monitoring and Development of Heart Block

Summary: This week we enter the world of fetal cardiology to ask the question, 'Can an inexpensive heart rate monitor for fetuses accurately identify in a timely manner fetal patients with impending heart block and can this allow for more timely and potentially effective therapies for AV conduction disease associated with maternal antibodies?' Is there an optimal time to intercede? We discuss a recent multi center work on a home monitoring program with its first author and world authority on fetal cardiology, Professor Bettina Cuneo of the University of Colorado. This is another possible 'game changer' article. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.07.076