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Fetal hydropericardium associated with left ventricular diverticulum

✍ Scribed by I. Cesko; J. Hajdú; Zs. Csapó; T. Tóth; B. Sipos; Z. Papp

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
171 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0197-3851

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✦ Synopsis

Fetal pericardial effusion usually develops because of fetal heart failure, infections, chromosomal abnormalities, fetal anaemia, intracardiac or extracardiac tumours. There is only one case in the literature of isolated hydropericardium associated with left ventricular diverticulum and here we report another.

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Congenital cardiac diverticula are rare abnormalities that may occur as isolated malformations. In this report, we describe a case of an isolated congenital cardiac diverticulum complicated by a large serous pericardial effusion diagnosed ultrasonographically at 19 weeks' gestation. Therapeutic peri