BACKGROUND Early detection of septal changes such as septal hypertrophy commonly present in fetuses of diabetic mothers would help reduce the high rates of infant mortality. OBJECTIVE Determine reference ranges for the fetal ventricular septal area through three-dimensional ultrasound (US3D) using the STIC method (Spatio-Temporal Image Correlation). METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional st...

FIGURE 1. M-mode scan from aorta (Ao) to apex of left ventricle (LV) performed with uniform speed of transducer. Note length of narrowed left ventricular outflow tract (OT). IVS, interventricular septum; c, cusps of aortic valve; F, fluttering of mitral valve; LA, left atrium; aML and pML, anterior and posterior leaflets of mitral valve; IVS, interventricular septum; ppm, posteromedial papillar...

Asymmetrical left ventricular hypertrophy secondary to interventricular septum hypertrophy is usually considered a typical phenotype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In rare cases other conditions such as tumors or lipomatous hypertrophy of the interventricular septum may have a similar presentation. We present a case of a male patient who presented for routine cardiology work up and was diagnos...

A case is reported in which a congenital aneurysm of the right coronary sinus of Valsalva ruptured and dissected into the interventricular septum. M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic examination allowed accurate preoperative assessment of the pathologic anatomy, which was confirmed by angiography, surgery and autopsy. Dissection of the interventricular septum by a congenital sinus of V...

A case is reported in which a congenital aneurysm of the right coronary sinus of Valsalva ruptured and dissected into the interventricular septum. M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic examination allowed accurate preoperative assessment of the pathologic anatomy, which was confirmed by angiography, surgery and autopsy. Dissection of the interventricular septum by a congenital sinus of V...

Cardiac tumors represent a relatively rare, yet challenging diagnosis. Echocardiography is the main diagnostic tool for the detection of a cardiac tumor. We report a case of congenital giant intra-cardiac tumor, in which echocardiography revealed a large well-defined hyperechoic homogenous intracardiac mass involving interventricular septum which mimicked like asymmetrical septal hypertrophic p...

Despite the numerous investigations into the blood supply of the ventricles of the human heart, little attention has been paid to the finer details of the vascular pattern of the arteries of the interventricular septum. In view of the importance of the effects of any deficiency in the blood supply to the septum, a comparison was made of the normal and diseased vascular patterns seen in the inte...

A Chinese woman was admitted to our hospital because of syncope. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a hypertrophic basal interventricular septum of 15 mm with a sharp angle protruding into the left ventricular outflow tract. Moreover, an anomalous anterolateral papillary muscle (maximum width of 11 mm) was inserted into the left ventricular outflow tract, with short chordae tendineae conne...