Congenital Malformation: Complete Absence of Anus

Congenital complete absence of the pericardium.

A38-year-old woman with ill-defined chest pain had an abnormal x-ray 8 years before her only pregnancy. She had been unable to bear down during delivery, but gestation was otherwise uncomplicated, yielding a normal female offspring. She subsequently experienced left-sided chest pain that awakened her from sleep when turning into either a right or left lateral decubitus position. The pain was pu...

Congenital Obstruction of the Anus

Congenital Absence of Left Circumflex Coronary Artery

Congenital absence of left circumflex artery is a rare congenital anomaly of the coronary arteries. The prevalence of the anomaly in different studies ranges from 0.6% to 1.3%. Of these, 80% are benign and asymptomatic and 20% are clinically important. We report a 56-year-old man presented with acute resting chest pain who was diagnosed as having acute anterolateral infarction accompanied by el...

Rare congenital absence of tail (anury) and anus (atresia ani) in male camel (Camelus dromedarius) calf

A one-day old male camel calf was presented to the Al-Qattara Veterinary Hospital with complaints of abdominal straining and lack of defecation. On examination it was found that the calf had no tail, the posterior sacral margin was blunt and the anal opening was absent. The case was diagnosed as congenital anury with atresia ani. The animal was sedated with 0.1 mg/kg of xylazine administered in...

Acalvaria: An Extremely Rare Congenital Skull Malformation

Acalvaria defined as absent skull bones, is an extremely rare congenital anomaly with only a handful of cases reported in literature. In this report we presented a male newborn case of acalvaria referred to our hospital (Shahid Motahari hospital of Urmia, Iran). The condition per se has been described as having high mortality rate. Very few living cases, less than ten, have been reported till now.