Left ventricular isolated hypoplasia is a seldom-described cardiac abnormality. Right usually associated with congenital anomalies of the pulmonary or tricuspid valve, whereas biventricular apical has never been described. We report case 48-year-old man no history known disease who was found to have complex abnormality characterized by: 1) Deficiency myocardium within apex adipose tissue infilt...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To identify the incidence of congenital cardiac abnormalities in patients who had scoliosis and underwent surgical treatment for scoliosis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Congenital and idiopathic scoliosis (IS) are associated with cardiac abnormalities. We sought to establish and compare the incidence of congenital cardiac abnormalities in patients with id...

The prevalence of congenital heart disease in Europe was recently reported in two major papers. Data from a central database for 29 population-based registries in 16 countries showed a total prevalence of 8 per 1000. The overall detection rate of non-chromosomal congenital heart disease prenatally was only 20%, although 40% of severe cases were diagnosed before birth. It was estimated that each...

Congenital heart defects are a major congenital abnormality and are assuming increasing importance. A study was undertaken to estimate the incidence of congenital heart defects in Northern Ireland over a five year period (1974-1978), to determine the age at diagnosis and to assess the risk of recurrence in sibs. An incidence rate of 7.3 per 1000 total births was found. This reduced to 3.1 per 1...