Prenatal diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and myocardial hypertrophy – literature review

Łucja H. Biały; Maria Respondek-Liberska

doi:10.5114/pcard.2024.156695

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Prenatal Cardiology

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Review paper

Prenatal diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and myocardial hypertrophy – literature review

Łucja H. Biały

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,

Maria Respondek-Liberska

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Students’ Prenatal Cardiology Scientific Group, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Department of Fetal Malformations Diagnosis and Prevention, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Department of Prenatal Cardiology, Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Lodz, Poland

Prenat Cardio 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/pcard.2024.156695

Online publish date: 2025/12/07

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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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Prenatal diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and myocardial hypertrophy – literature review

Łucja H. Biały 1 , Maria Respondek-Liberska 2, 3

gestational diabetes, myocardial hypertrophy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, HCM, prenatal diagnosis

Łucja H. Biały

¹

,

Maria Respondek-Liberska

^{2, 3}