title: Prenatal diagnosis of mobile flap-like tissue on the ventricular septal defect in a newborn with trisomy 18.
abstract: Trisomy 18 is the second most common autosomal trisomy in liveborn infants. Various congenital malformations, mental retardation, and high rate of infant mortality in the first year of life are characteristic features of trisomy 18. Congenital heart disease occurs in over 90% of these patients and the most common cardiac lesions are ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus and atrial septal defect. This is a case report of a baby born with trisomy 18 (postnatal diagnosis) in whom there was an unusual echocardiographic appearance of a mobile structure ("flap-like") around the area of a VSD-which was imaged prenatally.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kocabas
authors.forename: Abdullah Barış
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Akcan
authors.forename: Fırat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kardelen
authors.forename: Inanç
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mendilcioğlu
authors.forename: Ercan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mıhcı
authors.forename: Gayaz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Akçurin
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ertuğ
authors.forename: Nihal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oygür
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D002887:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D014314:Trisomy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal