[Ultrasonic echocardiography in the normal newborn infant. Application to the diagnosis of congenital cardiopathies].
Ultrasound echocardiography is automatic easy to carry out even in children in a precarious condition. The authors show the value of echocardiography in the neonatal period in a preliminary study involving 50 normal newborn infants. They discuss the cardiac abnormalities which may be diagnosed using this technique.