BACKGROUND More than 90% of children with congenital heart defects now survive into adulthood; just a few decades ago, survival was rare, particularly among patients with complex defects. The new population of adults with congenital heart disease presents a special challenge to physicians from all of the involved specialties. METHODS Selective literature review. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION A com...

The third edition of Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects proves to be a userfriendly and instructive resource that is sure to be of great value to many physicians. While the seasoned surgeon might call upon the text as a reference, even the greenest medical student wades comfortably into the depths of the text and feels empowered by the visual feast that awaits. As in the previous editions, me...

PURPOSE To identify and characterize defects using the automated perimetry test in patients with primary congenital glaucoma. METHODS Automated visual fields and charts of 81 eyes (48 patients) with congenital glaucoma were retrospectively analyzed, 15 being normal eyes (group N) and 66 eyes with primary congenital glaucoma (group G). Eyes of group G were grouped in eyes without perimetric ch...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to make an epidemiological study of major congenital heart defects and to make comparisons between groups of heart defects regarding different epidemiological variables. DESIGN The cases with congenital heart defects were identified from two Swedish registries: the Registry of Congenital Malformations and the Child Cardiology Registry. A classification with nine gr...

various dermatoglyphic parameters like finger print pattern, atd angle, absolute ridge count & ab, bc ,cd, and ad ridge counts were observed in 150 cases of congenital cardiac disease, comprising of 72 cases of ventricular septal defects (vsd), 60 cases of atrial septal defects (asd), 9 cases of coarctation of aorta (coa) & 9 cases of tetralogy of fallot’s (tof). same dermatoglyphic parameters ...

THE familial occurrence of conduction system disturbances has been reported infrequently in medical literature. Morquio, in 1901,1 reported clinical signs of impaired atrioventricular conduction in five boys in a family of eight children. There was no evidence of consanguinity and the defect did not occur in immediate ancestors nor in collateral branches of the family. In 1903, Sir William Osle...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of congenital defects and to investigate their maternal and perinatal associated aspects by reviewing Birth Certificates. METHODS Among all born alive infants from January 2003 to December 2007 in Maternidade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia of São Carlos, Southeast Brazil (12,199 infants), cases were identified as the newborns whose Birth Certificates register...

Congenital abnormalities are described as anomalies involving structure, metabolic or endocrine processes, or genetic coding that is present in the newborn at the end of the pregnancy. Neural tube defects are the most common abnormality of the central nervous system, probably second only to cardiac defects when considering major congenital anomalies. Representing a major public health concern, ...