A rare case of congenital heart disease with ambiguous genitalia

Kusuma, L. and Bharath, A. Parshwanath and Savitha, R. M. and Balasundaram, K. and Ramachandra, N. B. (2010) A rare case of congenital heart disease with ambiguous genitalia. Indian Journal of Human Genetics, 16 (3). pp. 166-168. ISSN 1998-362X

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Abstract

Birth defects have become the important cause of mortality and morbidity in the perinatal period. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect which includes the varying forms of cardiac abnormalities and occurs with an incidence of 1 per 100 live births. In most of the cases, CHD is an isolated malformation, but about 33% have associated anomalies. Ambiguous genitalia are one such rare anomaly that is associated with CHD among other genital abnormalities. The possible causes for this association could be pseudohermaphroditism, which in turn, may be due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The government of any country should consider providing for its people a free prenatal diagnosis for susceptible disorders.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: B Life Science > Zoology
Divisions: Department of > Zoology
Depositing User: LA manjunath user
Date Deposited: 29 Jul 2019 10:00
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2022 07:46
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/6183

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