[The usefulness of Doppler echocardiography in the diagnosis of neonatal Marfan's syndrome. A clinical case report]

Cardiologia. 1992 Jan;37(1):67-70.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Marfan syndrome is very rarely diagnosed in the neonate, and specific pathological and clinical findings are described in this age; cardiac involvement occurs very often, carrying severe prognosis in most patients. In the presented case the diagnosis was suspected according to clinical findings; bidimensional echocardiography showed that the most important lesion was tricuspid dysplasia and prolapse; Doppler echocardiography has contributed to explain the clinical severity, showing regurgitation of all cardiac valves and a pattern of functional tricuspid atresia. Autoptic examination has later confirmed all these findings.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Echocardiography
  • Echocardiography, Doppler*
  • Female
  • Heart Valves / pathology
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Marfan Syndrome / diagnostic imaging*
  • Marfan Syndrome / pathology