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Prenatal diagnosis of a left ventricular aneurysm
U Gembruch1, E Steil, D A Redel
1Department of Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Bonn, F.R.G.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
In a fetus with ventricular extrasystoles a congenital aneurysm of the left ventricle was diagnosed prenatally. At 32 weeks of gestation, echocardiography showed a large apical left ventricular aneurysm with a thin, hypokinetic wall. Congestive heart failure did not occur. Prenatal and postnatal examinations did not detect the aetiology of the aneurysm, but excluded the majority of possible causes. The 2-year-old child is now asymptomatic and normally developed. Neither medication nor surgical treatment have been necessary, except for antithrombotic prophylaxis with low-dose aspirin.