• Turk Pediatr Arsivi · Jun 2015

    A rare case of cardiac anomaly: prenatally diagnosed ectopia cordis.

    • Yalçın Çelik, Olgu Hallıoğlu, Nursel Basut, Hasan Demetgül, and A Esin Kibar.
    • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey.
    • Turk Pediatr Arsivi. 2015 Jun 1; 50 (2): 129-31.

    AbstractEctopia cordis is a rare congenital malformation in which the heart is located partially or totally outside the thoracic cavity. The estimated prevalence of ectopia cordis is 5.5-7.9 per million births and it comprises 0.1% of congenital heart diseases. Ectopia cordis is associated with other congenital heart diseases and various tissue and organ disorders. Common cardiac anomalies associated with ectopia cordis include ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, right ventricular diverticulum, double right ventricular outflow tract and tetralogy of Fallot. Extracardiac anomalies associated with ectopia cordis reported in the literature include omphalocele, gastrochisis, cleft lip and palate, scollosis and central nervous system malformations. Here we report a newborn with ectopia cordis who was diagnosed prenatally.

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