Prenatal Diagnosis of Cardiac Diverticulum with Pericardial Effusion in the First Trimester of Pregnancy with Resolution after Early Pericardiocentesis

• Main Authors: Raquel Garcia Rodriguez (Author), Azahara Rodriguez Guedes (Author), Raquel Garcia Delgado (Author), Lourdes Roldan Gutierrez (Author), Margarita Medina Castellano (Author), Jose Angel Garcia Hernandez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cardiac diverticulum is a rare anomaly, which may present in association with pericardial effusion. Only few cases diagnosed during fetal life have been published and only in 12 cases pericardiocentesis was made with good postnatal outcomes in 83% of the cases. In the first trimester of pregnancy on...