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Fetopathology identifies persisting spongy myocardium in a case of antenatal cardiomyopathy leading to therapeutic abortion.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights the difficulty of antenatal detection of persisting spongy myocardium in the absence of associated malformations.
Antenatal detection of isolated spongy myocardium remains difficult; this case leaves open the role of fetal imaging in early diagnosis.
Persisting spongy myocardium (also known as noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium) is a rare and special form of cardiomyopathy. The few cases reported in the literature were detected postnatally and involved a high rate of cardiovascular complications. This anomaly of endomyocardial morphogenesis, which occurs during the embryonic phase at the stage of cardiac partitioning, is characterised by an excessive number of prominent trabeculae and by intertrabecular recesses within the myocardial wall. Antenatal detection is difficult in the absence of an associated malformation, which is the general situation. We report a case of antenatal cardiomyopathy which led to therapeutic abortion. The diagnosis of persisting spongy myocardium was made during fetopathologic examination.
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Winer et al. (1998) conducted a case report in Persisting spongy myocardium (antenatal cardiomyopathy) (n=1). Persisting spongy myocardium was evaluated. A case of antenatal cardiomyopathy leading to therapeutic abortion was diagnosed as persisting spongy myocardium during fetopathologic examination.
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