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To explore the detection rate, types, accompanying abnormalities and prognosis of fetal congenital heart disease (CHD) in a single centre of northwest China, in order to lay a foundation for further studying the epidemiological characteristics of fetal CHD and integrated management of FCHD in the prenatal and postnatal. The number of abortion cases, intrauterine and postnatal natural deaths of fetal CHD accounted for 60.3% (1357/2251) of the total follow-up, of which complex CHD and chromosomal abnormalities accounting for the majority. The fetal complex CHD were more common while the prognosis were worse than simple CHD, but some types of complex CHD could be corrected by surgery by pregnancy monitoring and evaluation. [Extracted from the article]