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Ann Thorac Surg 1979;28:484-486
© 1979 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Immediate Operation for Ectopia Cordis

From the Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO.

Accepted for publication October 4, 1978.

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Lilly, Pediatric Surgery, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 E Ninth Ave, Denver, CO 80262.

Forty-one infants with thoracoabdominal ectopia cordis have been reported to date; 9 of them survived. Among the patients with an omphalocele as the abdominal wall defect, however, only 2 survived. Death in this group of patients occurred almost exclusively as a consequence of either attempted coverage of the heart or secondary to the associated intracardiac lesion. We report here the case of a patient recently treated in whom coverage with a temporary Silastic prosthesis protected the exposed heart from infection and rupture of the sac, thus permitting full cardiac investigation before operation.

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