Congenital cardiac abnormalities in monozygotic twins. Report and review of the literature.
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Congenital cardiac abnormalities in monozygotic twins. Report and review of the literature.
A pair of monozygotic twin girls is reported with concordance for 3 congenital cardiac abnormalities: (1) secundum atrial septal defect, (2) aneurysm of the membraneous ventricular septum, and (3) electrocardiographic frontal plane left axis deviation. A review of the published materials shows a 9.5 per cent incidence of concordance for congenital heart disease among monozygotic twins. In those...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1979
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.42.6.742