Fetal diagnosis of lethal dysfunction of the right heart in three siblings

Cardiol Young. 2000 Nov;10(6):621-4. doi: 10.1017/s104795110000891x.

Abstract

A woman, having already delivered one child, underwent fetal echocardiography during three subsequent pregnancies. All three showed enlargement and poor function of the right-sided chambers. The first was still-born, the second died as a neonate, while the third pregnancy was terminated. Pathological examination revealed the same findings in each fetus, possibly representing a variation of Uhl's anomaly, or alternatively a hitherto unrecognised cardiomyopathic process.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cardiomegaly / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiomegaly / genetics
  • Dilatation, Pathologic / diagnostic imaging
  • Female
  • Fetal Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Fetal Diseases / genetics
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Atria / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pregnancy
  • Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency / genetics
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / genetics
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal*