A multidisciplinary Cleveland Clinic team led by Darrell Cass, MD, has successfully performed a challenging fetal surgery to remove an intrapericardial teratoma that posed imminent lethal risk to a nearly 27-week-old fetus. Only one previous incidence of extended survival after fetal intrapericardial teratoma resection is documented in the world’s medical literature.
Prenatal Diagnosis of Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Case Study in Strategizing Management
A fetal echo in the third trimester showed left ventricular dilation, poor aortic valve function and severe mitral regurgitation. Is it a left ventricular aneurysm or dilated cardiomyopathy?