The present study of 47 necropsy cases of congenital heart disease has revealed that cardiac defects occur as frequently in the African as in the non-African. The types of congenital heart disease and the associated non-cardiac malformations are similar to what has been described in non-Africans. Tetrad of Fallot was the commonest type of multiple defect and ventricular septal defect the most c...

introduction: along with advances occurring in cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) including improved anesthesia intubation and early surgical interventions, it has become possible to correct life-threatening congenital heart anatomic abnormalities in patients. our study aimed to collect information from one of the most important centers of pediatric cardiac surgery in iran since there is limited info...

The occurrence of various congenital anomalies, including heart defects, in children whose mothers had suffered from rubella during pregnancy was originally described by Gregg (1941) in Australia and these observations have been confirmed by many other workers. There is, however, surprisingly little detailed information available about the particular types of congenital heart defect that may oc...

BACKGROUND Smaller studies and many case series reports indicate that congenital heart defects may be more common in monochorionic twins than in dichorionic twins and singletons. METHODS AND RESULTS We investigated congenital heart defect occurrence in all twins and 5% of all singletons born in Denmark in 1977-2001 and followed through 2006 by linking the Danish Twin Registry and Statistics D...

A50-year-old man was accepted as a multiorgan donor. The cause of death was cranioencephalic trauma. No pathological antecedents were found. Transthoracic echocardiography showed neither valvular nor contractility abnormalities. Cardiectomy was performed as usual. A traumatic interatrial septal defect was found in the donor heart preparation before transplantation (Figure 1). It did not involve...

Holt-Oram syndrome is a rare inherited disorder involving the hands, arms, and the heart. The defects involve carpal bones of the wrist and the thumb and the associated cardiac anomalies like atrial or ventricular septal defects. Congenital cardiac and upper-limb malformations frequently occur together and are classified as heart-hand syndromes. The most common amongst the heart-hand disorders ...

Two sisters with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, and congenital heart disease are herein reported. One was a 20-year-old woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and multiple aphthous stomatitis, bronchial asthma, an emphysematous lung, a ventricular septal defect and a bilateral inguinal hernia due to hyperextensibility and joint hypermobility. The other was a 17-ye...

Clinical findings: The routine examination of an asymptomatic 10-day-old male patient with Down syndrome revealed a holosystolic and mild (+ to ++ of intensity) heart murmur characteristic of low ventricular septal defect, auscultated along the left sternal margin with radiation to the right sternal margin, and normal heart sounds. In addition, there were mild thrusts in the left sternal margin...

OBJECTIVE To summarize the experience with the application of robotic technique in totally endoscopic atrial septal defect closure in a single center. METHODS Between January 2007 and September 2011, 115 patients with the diagnosis of secundum type atrial septal defects underwent robotic atrial septal defect repair with the assistance of da Vinci surgical system. The patients had a median age...