The Video can be viewed in the online version of this article [https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.12.097] on https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org.During a mission Kinshasa Democratic Republic Congo 2019, case ectopia cordis was diagnosed (Video). This amazing video shows newborn opening its eyes with an extrathoracic beating heart.The 1900 g boy born at 33 weeks’ gestation transferre...

Despite the use of protective gear, a 15-year-old hockey player died when he was struck in the chest by a puck. This is the fifth recorded hockey death related to so-called commotio cordis, that is, blunt chest injury without myocardial structural damage. In light of inadequacies of commercial chest protectors currently in use for hockey, the authors hope to educate players and coaches about th...

The recessive mutant mouse jumonji (jmj), obtained by a gene trap strategy, shows neural tube defects in approximately half of homozygous embryos with a BALB/cA and 129/Ola mixed background, but no neural tube defects with BALB/cA, C57BL/6J, and DBA/2J backgrounds. Here, we show that neural tube and cardiac defects are observed in all embryos with a C3H/HeJ background. In addition, abnormal gro...

Since colonial times emblems are used in Brazil as an important religious language. Among their diversity, the language of the “religio cordis” is outstanding and even gained a kind of sociological equivalent, called “cordial man” (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda). Alternative Protestant forms (G. de Montenay; D. Cramer) or Protestant adaptations of Catholic works have shown in Brazil no effect among...

Considering that it is perhaps the most celebrated passage in the whole history of medical science, it is not surprising that the opening lines of chapter 8 of William Harvey's De motu cordis' have attracted a good deal of attention from scholars. It is in this passage, after all, that we get Harvey's own account ofthe sequence of his thoughts as he came upon the idea that the blood might have ...

We present a case of a previously healthy 17 year-old white male boy scout who collapsed after a lightning strike, and was found to be in ventricular fibrillation when emergency medical services arrived. The ventricular fibrillation was defibrillated into sinus rhythm after a single direct current (DC) countershock. However, the patient has remained in coma. Commotio cordis, sudden cardiac deat...