European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 14, 2007
European Heart Journal 2008 29(7):845; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm510
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Prenatal echographic recognition of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy leading to heart transplantation in the newborn
1 Pediatric and Congenital Adult Cardiology Unit, University of Bologna and S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
2 Department of Pathology, University of Bologna and S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
3 Institute of Cardiology, University of Bologna and S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy
* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 051349858, Fax: +39 051344859, Email: claudio.rapezzi@unibo.it
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A healthy, non-diabetic 27-year-old woman attended a routine foetal echography during the 32nd week of an uneventful first pregnancy. Growth of the (female) foetus was normal for the gestational phase and no general malformation was observed. However, the echocardiographic evaluation