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Prenatal ultrasound combined with cardiovascular casts diagnose symmetrically complex cardiac malformations in two fetuses
Author(s) -
Wang Yu,
Zhang Jiaqi,
Feng Wei,
Wu You,
Si Ziyi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.15090
Subject(s) - dextrocardia , fetus , medicine , ductus arteriosus , pulmonary artery , fetal echocardiography , cardiology , prenatal diagnosis , prenatal ultrasound , anatomy , pregnancy , biology , genetics
Dextrocardia with a ductus arteriosus (DA) malformation is extremely rare. Here, we present a case of dextrocardia complicated with a right DA that is circuitously connecting the pulmonary artery and the right brachiocephalic artery. Coincidentally, the deformities of this fetus are almost symmetrical with those in another fetus (also presented here), which is astonishing and meaningful. Dextrocardia is rare, complicated, and not well understood. In this report, we carefully compared prenatal echocardiographic images and cardiovascular casts from two fetuses. Our report of these cases may provide new insights for cardiologists to better understand dextrocardia and its associated malformations.