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Prenatal ultrasonic diagnosis of familial asymmetric septal hypertrophy
Author(s) -
Stewart Patricia A.,
BuisLiem Tjik,
Verwey Robert A.,
Wladimiroff Juriy W.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
prenatal diagnosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1097-0223
pISSN - 0197-3851
DOI - 10.1002/pd.1970060404
Subject(s) - prenatal diagnosis , medicine , muscle hypertrophy , prenatal ultrasound , fetus , obstetrics , pregnancy , cardiology , genetics , biology
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.