Prenatal Cardiology

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1/2024
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Artykuł Video: Prenatal diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and myocardial hypertrophy – literature review

Prenatal diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and myocardial hypertrophy – literature review

  1. Students’ Prenatal Cardiology Scientific Group, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
  2. Department of Fetal Malformations Diagnosis and Prevention, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
  3. Department of Prenatal Cardiology, Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
Prenat Cardio 2024
Online publish date: 2025/12/07
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Confronting perimenopausal women’s knowledge of coronary heart disease with their health behaviours. Controversial role of hormone replacement therapy in the protection of coronary heart disease
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a rare condition that involves abnormal structure of the sarcomere and can be seen on fetal echocardiography as an excessive growth of the ventricles; it is usually differentiated with myocardial hypertrophy due to maternal diabetes. Both can be diagnosed during fetal echocardiography examination; however, myocardial hypertrophy is a much more common occurrence. Their diagnosis can involve thickening of the walls, and left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) or right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction in rare cases can occur resulting in fetal hydrops and heart failure.
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