Congenital unilateral agenesis of the internal carotid artery (ICA) is a rare anomaly. Due to proper sufficient collateral circulation via the circle of Willis most cases are asymptomatic, but patients can also present with ischemic or hemorrhagic cerebrovascular insults. The absence of the bony carotid canal is essential to differentiate this anomaly from chronic ICA occlusion. Awareness of th...

been reported in some cases of congenital heart disease, congenital lung diseases such as bronchopulmonary sequestration and hypogenetic lung syndrome, and in apparently normal heart and lung (1, 2). The latter has been described as the rarest form of the condition (3). The basal segments of the left lower lobe are most frequently involved, and this anomaly is therefore referred to as the syste...

The congenital midline cervical cleft is a rare developmental abnormality of the anterior part of the neck Luschka in 1848 and noted in the English literature by Bailey in 1924 [1,2]. The lesion is often initially evaluated by a pediatrician or primary care physician who may misinterpret the anomaly as a branchial cleft deformity or thyroglossal duct cyst. Although developmentally related to th...

Duplication of the mitral valve is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly, only twenty instances having been previously reported. There are on record in addition two cases of triplication of the mitral valve, a condition presumably resulting from a similar defect in development. Duplication of the tricuspid valve also occurs, but less commonly than the mitral anomaly. This case is reported in order ...

NOMALOUS inferior vena cava with azygos or hemiazygos continuation has been considered to be a very rare anomaly in the past. However, since the development of cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography, this congenital abnormality has been reported with increasing frequency. This anomaly is usually associated with other cardiovascular defect, and there are few reported cases without other m...

The Wildervanck (or cervico-oculo-acoustic) syndrome consists of the characteristic triad of Klippel-Feil anomaly, abducens nerve palsy, and congenital deafness. It is a rare "disorder of polygenic heredity with sex limitation predominant to the female" (female-male ratio is 10: 1) ( 1 ). Hearing loss is most commonly neurosensory due to developmental inner ear anomalies. Only a single case of ...

The authors report a case of double-orifice mitral valve (DOMV) which showed mitral stenosis and mild insufficiency. An associated anomaly was secundum atrial septal defect. DOMV is an unusual congenital heart defect. The occurrence of this anomaly with or without secundum atrial septal defect is very rare. More often it is associated with other congenital malformations arising from atrioventri...

Dorsal pancreatic agenesis is a very rare congenital anomaly. Unilateral renal agenesis, on the other hand, is a relatively common congenital anomaly, although its etiology is not fully understood. Renal and pancreatic embryologic development appears to be nonrelated. We report a case of a 34-year-old man who was referred to our hospital for evaluation of cholestasis and microalbuminuria. Ultra...

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital anomaly, characterized by nonfunctional embryonic pulmonary tissue. Pulmonary sequestration accounts for 0.15-6.40% of all congenital pulmonary malformations. This anomaly, which is classified as intralobar or extralobar, involves the lung parenchyma and its vascularization. We report the case of a 56-year-old male presenting with hemoptysis. A chest...

Cardiothoracic ratio upper to 0.60 is a factor of poor prognostic in patients with Ebstein’s anomaly and the prognostic is worse if is associated with others congenital heart disease. We present 4-months black boy with Ebstein’s anomaly associated with atrial septal defect, pulmonary valve atresia and patent ductus arteriosus wherein the cardiothoracic ratio nearly 1.0. The patient died five ho...