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BMJ Case Rep
May 2014
Department of Cardiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
A 17-year-old male patient presented with cyanosis, repeated squatting since childhood and haemoptysis since the past 1 month. He had central cyanosis with clubbing. Cardiovasular examination revealed ejection systolic murmur in the pulmonary area with single S2.
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September 2013
Katedra i Zakład Anatomii Prawidłowej Człowieka Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie.
The heart is a mesoderm-derived organ, whose formation is regulated by various genes. Initially, the most important is expression of Nkx2.5, CR1, pitx2, anf and mhc2a, which are responsible for differentiation of cardiomyocytes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBull Acad Natl Med
February 2011
Centre de référence des malformations cardiaques congénitales complexes - M3C, Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades - 149, Paris.
Natural selection and therapeutic efficiency limit the type of cardiac malformations that/can be treated in poor countries. Most of the patients studied here are those with left-to-right shunts (arterial, atrial and, especially, ventricular), right-to-left shunts associated with a ventricular septal defect (tetralogy of Fallot) or an atrial septal defect (trilogy of Fallot), and stenosis of the pulmonary or aortic valves. Early diagnosis is crucial, but this will require a new health policy involving specially trained nurses or technicians equipped with cheap portable echo-Doppler machines to examine babies' hearts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Obstet Anesth
July 2011
Department of Anaesthesia, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia.
Velocardiofacial or 22q11 deletion syndrome is a genetic condition caused by deletion 22q11, the deletion of a small segment of the long arm of chromosome 22. To our knowledge this is the first case report of a woman with Velocardiofacial syndrome presenting in late pregnancy for caesarean delivery. She had undergone a Tetralogy of Fallot repair as an infant and had residual pulmonary regurgitation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFG Ital Cardiol (Rome)
December 2008
U. O. di Cardiologia Pediatrica, Ospedale A. Meyer, Firenze.
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