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Immediate operation for ectopia cordis.

A F Jones·R L McGrath·S M Edwards·J R Lilly
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Forty-one infants with thoracoabdominal ectopia cordis have been reported to date; 9 of them survived. Among the patients with an omphalocele as the abdominal wall defect, however, only 2 survived. Death in this group of patients occurred almost exclusively as a consequence of either attempted coverage of the heart or secondary to the associated intracardiac lesion. We report here the case of a patient recently treated in whom coverage with a temporary Silastic prosthesis protected the exposed heart from infection and rupture of the sac, thus permitting full cardiac investigation before operation.

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A F Jones, R L McGrath, S M Edwards, J R Lilly. 1979. Immediate operation for ectopia cordis.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0003-4975(10)63158-x

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