A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect

Five-chambered heart is extremely rare in children. We report a case of asymptomatic five chamber heart detected in infancy. The patient is 2-day-old and managed in a special care baby unit (SCBU) for neonatal sepsis. During routine follow-up at the age of 1 month, she was found to have an asymptoma...

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Autores principales: Ezeogu, Joseph, Ezeofor, Tochukwu, Nwolisa, Emeka, Omokhua, Osarieme
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3948969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24665161
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.126305
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author Ezeogu, Joseph
Ezeofor, Tochukwu
Nwolisa, Emeka
Omokhua, Osarieme
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description Five-chambered heart is extremely rare in children. We report a case of asymptomatic five chamber heart detected in infancy. The patient is 2-day-old and managed in a special care baby unit (SCBU) for neonatal sepsis. During routine follow-up at the age of 1 month, she was found to have an asymptomatic murmur. Echocardiograph reported five-chambered heart, concluding that it is Cor triatriatum, supravalvular pulmonary stenosis and secundum atrial septal defect. The child is still been followed-up and is still asymptomatic at 7 months. Five-chambered heart, although rare, can occur even if asymptomatic.
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spelling pubmed-39489692014-03-24 A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect Ezeogu, Joseph Ezeofor, Tochukwu Nwolisa, Emeka Omokhua, Osarieme Niger Med J Case Report Five-chambered heart is extremely rare in children. We report a case of asymptomatic five chamber heart detected in infancy. The patient is 2-day-old and managed in a special care baby unit (SCBU) for neonatal sepsis. During routine follow-up at the age of 1 month, she was found to have an asymptomatic murmur. Echocardiograph reported five-chambered heart, concluding that it is Cor triatriatum, supravalvular pulmonary stenosis and secundum atrial septal defect. The child is still been followed-up and is still asymptomatic at 7 months. Five-chambered heart, although rare, can occur even if asymptomatic. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3948969/ /pubmed/24665161 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.126305 Text en Copyright: © Nigerian Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nwolisa, Emeka
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A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect
title A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect
title_full A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect
title_fullStr A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect
title_full_unstemmed A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect
title_short A Five (5) chamber heart (Cor Triatriatum) in Infancy: A rare congenital heart defect
title_sort five (5) chamber heart (cor triatriatum) in infancy: a rare congenital heart defect
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3948969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24665161
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.126305
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