Cast of Complex Congenital Heart Malformation in a Living Patient

Some possible causes of congenital heart malformation.

Certain conditions found in human congenital heart disease are probably genetic in origin (Cockayne, 1938; Polani and Campbell, 1955), but sometimes they may be correlated with an environmental factor, namely the infection of the mother with rubella during early pregnancy. Thus there appears to be no single cause of congenital heart abnormality; sometimes genetic causes and sometimes environmen...

Exhibition of a Cast of a Congenital Malformation of the Palate

Paradoxical renal embolism in a patient with congenital cardiac malformation.

A 35-year-old man was admitted with sudden new-onset pain in his right flank. He had been born with a complex cardiac malformation consisting of double outlet right ventricle with malposition of the great arteries, straddling of the tricuspid valve and large atrial and ventricular septal defects. During the newborn period, pulmonary artery banding was conducted. Three years later corrective sur...

Haemopneumothorax from congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation in a cryptorchidism patient.

Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) of the lung is an uncommon congenital anomaly, especially in young adults. This study reports an 18-yr-old male with CCAM involving the right upper lobe, who presented with a moderate spontaneous haemopneumothorax initially. The patient also had bilateral abdominal cryptorchidism which required surgical treatment earlier in childhood. The chest ...

Screening for congenital heart malformation in child health centres.

BACKGROUND Although screening for congenital heart malformations is part of the child health care programme in several countries, there are very few published evaluations of these activities. This report is concerned with the evaluation of this screening at the Dutch Child Health Centres (CHC). METHODS All consecutive patients, aged between 32 days and 4 years, presented at the Sophia Childre...