First trimester diagnosis of Absent Pulmonary Valve (APV): a case report of prenatal treatment with a review of literature and data from The Polish National Registry of Fetal Cardiac Pathology

• Authors: Agnieszka Nawara , Beata Radzymińska-Chruściel , Maria Respondek Liberska , Katarzyna Januszewska , Edward Malec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Absent of pulmonary valve syndrome is a rare congenital heart defect, which is diagnosed prenataly in 0,8% of fetuses with congenital heart defect based on the data from National Polish Registry Of Fetal Cardiac Anomalies. We present a case of pregnat woman and fetus with that heart defect, which was detected in the 1st trimester and treated prenatally with digoxin, amnioreduction, tocolysis and steroids following by the cardiac sugery in the neonatal period. Despite an intensive therapy, the infant died on the 3rd month of age. We belive that the main reason of poor outcome was premature delivery at the 35th week of gestation. We present unique cardiac images proving the changing characterists of this type anomay since 1 st trimester

Keywords

EN

pregnancy; prevention of sponatenous preterm birth; cervical assessment

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Prenatal Cardiology
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 18-22

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2014

accepted

29 - 9 - 2014

online

30 - 12 - 2015

received

6 - 8 - 2014

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Nawara

• Volumed Specialist Clinic in Cracow

author

Beata Radzymińska-Chruściel

• Fetal Echocardiography Laboratory Ujastek Medical Centre in Krakow

author

Maria Respondek Liberska

• Department of Diagnoses and Prevention Fetal Malformations Medical University of Lodz
• Department of Prenatal Cardiology, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute

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Katarzyna Januszewska

• University Hospital Munster, Division of Pediatric Heart Surgery

author

Edward Malec

• University Hospital Munster, Division of Pediatric Heart Surgery

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12847/09143