title: Spontaneous closure of inlet ventricular septal defect in an infant with Down's syndrome and aortic coarctation.
abstract: Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is considered one of the most common congenital heart diseases in patients with Down's syndrome. It is well known that some VSDs show a tendency to diminish in size and to close. To our knowledge, in patients with Down's syndrome spontaneous closure of a perimembranous inlet VSD has not been described before. The prevalence of some cardiac malformations and the rarity of others have been reported in patients with Down's syndrome. Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction rarely occurs in patients with Down's syndrome. A case of Down's syndrome with coarctation of the aorta, patent ductus arteriosus, and perimembranous inlet VSD that spontaneously closed by formation of aneurysm of the membranous septum is reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, University of Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Papa
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corno
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications*; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000150:complications; D004452:Echocardiography; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous