1 Department of Pediatrics (Section of Cardiology) and Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, and the Department of Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, and the Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina
A child was treated for thoracoabdominal ectopia cordis and an associated chromosomal defect. Contrary to most cases in which death is due to the externally situated heart and abdominal viscera, this patient died from congenital heart disease.
Submitted on October 17, 1977