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Chapter 12 - Fetal Cardiovascular Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2019

Michael T. Ashworth
Michael T. Ashworth
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London
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Summary

The chapter opens with observations on the normal fetal heart and proceeds to a discussion of fetal hydrops and its associated cardiac causes. There follows a treatment of the syndromes associated with congenital heart disease in the fetus. Common congenital heart defects as they appear in the fetus are illustrated. Fetal cardiomyopathy, myocarditis and arrhythmia all have separate discussions. The chapter closes with a series of discussions on the pathology of twins as it affects the heart: twin–twin transfusion syndrome, conjoined twins and acardiac twins.

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Hydropsarrhythmiacardiomyopathymyocarditislupussyndrometwin–twin transfusionconjoined twins
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Pathology of Heart Disease in the Fetus, Infant and Child
Autopsy, Surgical and Molecular Pathology
 , pp. 252 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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