Key result
LV diverticulum links to isolated fetal hydropericardium in only the second reported case.
Why the study?
Only one case of isolated hydropericardium associated with left ventricular diverticulum had been reported in the literature.
This report adds a second case to the literature of isolated fetal hydropericardium associated with left ventricular diverticulum.
May prompt LV diverticulum consideration in fetal hydropericardium differentials; extends sparse case reports but leaves open need for validation.
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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Cesko et al. (1998) studied this question. Left ventricular diverticulum was identified as a rare cause of isolated fetal hydropericardium, representing only the second such case reported in the literature.
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