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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1997;40(3):413-416. Published online March 15, 1997.

A Case of Ectopia Cordis

Sun A SA Kim¹, Chun Soo CS Kim¹, Geun Soo GS Park¹, Myung Sung MS Kim¹, Sang Lak SL Lee¹, Joon Sik JS Kim¹, Tae Chan TC Kwon¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Keimyung University, School of Medicine, Taegu, Korea

Abstract

Ectopia cordis is a very rare cardiac anomaly that the heart is partially or totally outside the thorax, and it was classified anatomically as 5 types-cervical, thoracocervical, thoracic (most commontype), thoracoabdominal, abdominal types. We experienced a case of ectopia cordis(thoracic type) in a newborn who had the symptom of generalized cyanosis since birth, and expired during operation due to recurrent bradycardia and hypotension. The brief review of literature was made

Keywords :Ectopia cordis