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Cardiac Malpositions Including Ectopia Cordis and Congenital Pericardial Defect

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Neonatal Heart Disease

Abstract

We explored in Chapter 10 the basic tenets of a segmental and sequential approach to congenital heart malformations, using an amalgam of those thoughts of Richard Van Praagh and Robert H. Anderson. Their principles distilled in that chapter are germane not just for the relatively straightforward types of congenitally malformed hearts, but are essential to the understanding and unravelling of those complex heart malformations characterized by an abnormal cardiac position, or a cardiac position thought abnormal for the visceral and atrial situs.

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Freedom, R.M. (1992). Cardiac Malpositions Including Ectopia Cordis and Congenital Pericardial Defect. In: Neonatal Heart Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1814-5_44

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