| Autor: |
Spencer R; Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70115, USA., Robichaux WH, Superneau DW, Lucas VW Jr |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Pediatric cardiology [Pediatr Cardiol] 2002 Nov-Dec; Vol. 23 (6), pp. 631-8. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/s00246-002-0162-z |
| Abstrakt: |
Two unrelated cases of conjoined twins were found to have cardiac malformations that apparently have not been reported previously. In one case, thoracopagus twins had an extensive thoracoabdominal wall defect that resulted in ectopia cordis of a conjoined heart along with evisceration of the shared liver and intestine along with one spleen. These malformations, accompanied by defects in the sternum, diaphragm, and supraumbilical abdominal wall, constitute a conjoined pentalogy of Cantrell. In the second case, the heart of one of omphalopagus twins consisted of a solid ventricular mass with only a minute aortic cavity but no atrioventricular communication-an ineffective heart that could develop only in a conjoined or chorioangiopagus twin. In both cases, a common atrium lay in the primitive (embryologic) position caudal to the ventricles. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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