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Prenatal ultrasonic diagnosis of familial asymmetric septal hypertrophy |
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| Authors: | Patricia A Stewart Tjik Buis-Liem Robert A Verwey Juriy W Wladimiroff |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Academic Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands;2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academic Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands;3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Dijkzigt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Abstract: | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy usually manifests clinically in the second or third decade of life. Two dimensional echocardiography is a reliable indicator of the presence of the disease. This technique is of use in the screening of fetuses at risk for familial cardiomyopathy. This report describes the prenatal echocardiographic detection of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the fetus of a mother with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy localized to the apical region of the left ventricle. |
| Keywords: | Fetal echocardiography Familial cardiomyopathy |