在治疗充血性心力衰竭方面已取得进展,包括对洋地黄的效用,尤其是洋地黄对有左向右分流心衰婴儿的某些有争议看法的应用。改变心脏前、后负荷疗法日益增多的成功,新型强心药的开发以及伍用更有效的利尿剂,为许多病人提供了可选用的洋地黄类药物。产前诊断目前获得迅速发展,近来,传统的查检手段如羊膜穷刺术已增加了绒毛膜活组织检查等新的内容,使其能作出更早期的诊断。越来越多的胎儿超声心动图检查开辟了对心脏病作出产前诊断的新领域,对某些病例,还创立了产前治疗的方法(如宫内阵发性室上性心动过速的转律)。对儿科心脏病学工作者来说,最令人激动的变化是心脏超声检查的不断改进。首先,从 M 型超声心动图(动态型、心脏的一维图象)迅速进展到交叉切面 Progress has been made in the treatment of congestive heart failure, including the utility of digitalis, and in particular the use of digitalis for some of the controversial views of infants with left-to-right shunting heart failure. Changing the success of pre-and post-load therapies, the development of new cardiotonic drugs and the more effective diuretics have provided many patients with digitalis. Prenatal diagnosis is now rapidly developing, recently, the traditional means of detection such as amniotic membrane has increased the chorion biopsy and other new content, so that it can make an earlier diagnosis. An increasing number of fetal echocardiographic exams have opened up new areas of prenatal diagnosis of heart disease and in some cases prenatal treatments such as intrauterine paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia Turn the law). The most exciting change for pediatric cardiologists is the continuous improvement of echocardiography. First, rapid progression from M-mode echocardiography (dynamic, one-dimensional image of the heart) to cross-section