T HE MANAGEMENT of patients with congenital communications between the ascending aorta and the main pulmonary artery is a challenging problem, not only in the establishment of the correct diagnosis preoperatively, but in subsequent surgical treatment as well. Although often described as a rare malformation, aortopulmonary septal defect will probably be encountered in any large group of patients...

vein of galen aneurysmal malformation (vgam) is a rare congenital malformation, accounting for less than 1% of cerebrovascular abnormalities. the majority of reported cases have been associated with congestive heart failure (chf) in the neonatal period. herein, we present a case of vgam, diagnosed at 37 weeks of gestation during the intrauterine life case report: a full-term female newborn pres...

BACKGROUND: It is known that 22q11.2 microdeletion is a submicroscopic chromosomal anomaly with cardiac and extra-cardiac manifestations. The prevalence and manifestations in north India have not been well characterized. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of 22q11.2 microdeletion in congenital cardiac malformation cases referred for surgery from north India and to a...

Jarcho Levin syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by multipl vertebral and costal anomalies at birth. Jarcho Levin syndrome includes two phenotypic groups: spondylothoracic dysostosis and spondylocostal dysostosis. The prognosis of spondylothoracic dysostosis has worse than spondylocostal dysostosis, because of respiratory complications. Associated malformations include those of th...

background the most common space occupying lesions of the fetal thorax are congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh), congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (ccam), and bronchopulmonary sequestration (bps). although applications of prenatal mri have been vastly improved in the recent years, its use in the assessment of space occupying lesions of the fetal chest differs among centers. objectives...

Anorectal malformation is a congenital anomaly and can be either isolated or associated. This often combined with other defects, in particular VACTERL-association (anomalies of the spine, anal region, heart, trachea, esophagus, kidneys extremities), which requires comprehensive diagnosis these patients. Congenital malformations gastrointestinal tract except for esophageal atresia are rare. The ...