title: Surgical repair of a ventricular septal defect in a patient with trisomy 8 syndrome.
abstract: We surgically repaired a ventricular septal defect (-VSD) in a patient with trisomy 8 syndrome. This case illustrated a number of characteristic clinical features associated with trisomy 8 syndrome patients which have previously been reported in the literature. However, our patient's VSD was not found to be particularly different from the VSD of patients without chromosomal abnormalities during either the surgery or the postoperative course.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watarida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Onoe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nojima
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002898:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome; D014314:Trisomy / Q000473:pathology*