A premature infant with trisomy 18 had cardiac defects including parachute mitral valve, coarctation of the aorta, and a subcristal ventricular septal defect. The parachute mitral valve was funnel-shaped with a moderately-thick cone of fibrous tissue around the annulus and an eccentric orifice. Many
Prolapsed valve of the foramen ovale in newborns and infants with coarctation of the aorta
✍ Scribed by Eckhard Jentsch; Rüdiger Liersch; Maurice Bourgeois
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 325 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0172-0643
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