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With the development of prenatal echocardiography, CVD can be diagnosed from the early stage of pregnancy, and prenatal procedures, such as pericardiocentesis, are also possible. Spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) acquisition, a novel approach for the clinical evaluation of fetal hearts, provides easy-to-use techniques for acquiring data from fetal hearts and helping visualization with two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3D) cine sequences. Furthermore, the speckle-tracking technique enables a more comprehensive evaluation of the shape, continuity, and function of the fetal heart. These recent techniques have never been used for CVD diagnosis and evaluation. Here, we present a case of right-sided CVD, which is the first in which STIC acquisition and cardiac function assessment with the speckle-tracking technique were used to assist in the diagnosis and evaluation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics12102438","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,8]],"date-time":"2022-10-08T20:43:21Z","timestamp":1665261801000},"page":"2438","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Prenatal Diagnosis of Right-Sided Congenital Ventricular Diverticulum (CVD) Assisted by Spatiotemporal Image Correlation (STIC) Acquisition and the Speckle-Tracking Technique to Assess Fetal Cardiac Function: A Case Report"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8788-6446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji Hye","family":"Koh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hyo Jeong","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinyoung","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan 44033, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9196-1629","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jun Woo","family":"Ahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, Ulsan 44033, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"267","DOI":"10.7863\/jum.2007.26.2.267","article-title":"Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of fetal right ventricular diverticulum","volume":"26","author":"Wax","year":"2007","journal-title":"J. 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