Recurrent meningitis occurs usually due to immunological or anatomical abnormality as well as chronic parameningeal infections. Anatomical abnormalities can be acquired or congenital and most of them are located in the head and neck region. Congenital defects include inner ear abnormalities, patent cochlear aqueduct, patent Hyrtlʼs fissure, abnormal developed facial canal and dehiscence at the ...

The impression that has been gathered from a perusal of the available literature is that a patent ductus arteriosus as a sole abnormality is comparatively rare. In Abbott's' coliected series of 850 cases there were but 73, and in Laubry and Pezzi's2 well-known work the lesion is said to be rare. Recently Perry3 in a review of congenital heart lesions in Bristol school children found, amongst 12...

The impression that has been gathered from a perusal of the available literature is that a patent ductus arteriosus as a sole abnormality is comparatively rare. In Abbott's' coliected series of 850 cases there were but 73, and in Laubry and Pezzi's2 well-known work the lesion is said to be rare. Recently Perry3 in a review of congenital heart lesions in Bristol school children found, amongst 12...

OBJECTIVE To outline two cases of congenital tracheocutaneous fistula and discuss the potential pathogenesis of this previously unreported developmental abnormality. METHODS Two cases of tracheocutaneous fistula evaluated at John Peter Smith Hospital (Fort Worth, TX) from May to October 2001 were reviewed. The surgical treatment of one infant is described. RESULTS Two infants were evaluated...

The most common aortic valve congenital abnormality is observed in bicuspid aortic valve. Only a few cases of aortic valve quadricuspidy have been reported in the literature. We report a new case of endocarditis complicating a congenital quadricuspid aortic valve.

Thirty-five fetal deaths (30.4%) and 12 cases of congenital abnormality (15.0%) occurred in 117 subsequent pregnancies and 80 sibs of 112 consultands who had babies with unidentified multiple congenital abnormalities after genetic counselling. The specific recurrence risk of unidentified multiple congenital abnormalities was 5%.