title: [Ventricular hypoplasia in congenital heart diseases].
abstract: Twenty-seven cases of autopsy showing hypoplasia of one of the ventricular cavities, prevalently the left, were selected from a series of 103 congenital cardiopathies (1979-1990). In 9 cases ventricular hypoplasia formed part of complex malformative syndromes with a well-known physiognomy: a further 18 cases showed a complete (9 cases) or incomplete (9 cases) hypoplastic heart syndrome. Subjects were prevalently female and the presence of other malformations indicating a genetic dysfunction was less evident than in other cardiopathies. The different pathogenetic hypotheses are discussed in the light of macro- and microscopic morphological factors, of which the most plausible is that involving an anomalous position or orientation of the musculo-membranous folds which give rise to the septation system of the various metamers of the cardiac tube.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Anatomia ed Istologia Patologica, USL n. 41, Napoli.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aliperta
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Turco
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Caterino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aliperta
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vicinanza
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Le ipoplasie ventricolari nelle cardiopatie congenite.