[Ectopia cordia].
9 children aged from 40 hours to 7 years were operated upon. The peculiarity of the surgical intervention in a newborn consists in the difficult arising at the correction of the position of the heart. Both newborns died to the heart defects incompatible with life. The operations carried out upon elder children (7) were successful, the difficulty derived from the necessity to form a thoracic frame over the transposed heart. The late results are good.
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography
Ektopiia serdtsa.