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Anatomic evidence of spontaneous intrauterine closure of a ventricular septal defect

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An infant, born to a mother on carbamazepine monotherapy, had a complex cardiac anomaly, consisting of double-outlet right ventricle (DORV), right-sided aorta, pulmonary artery hypoplasia, left ventricular endocardial fibroelastosis, and anatomic evidence of a spontaneously closed muscular ventricular septal defect (VSD). The last finding is one which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been illustrated before.

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  1. Department of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Carmel Hospital, 34362, Haifa, Israel

    Amiram Nir, Zalman Weintraub & Anita Oliven

  2. Department of Pathology, Carmel Hospital, 34362, Haifa, Israel

    Judith Kelener & Miriam Lurie

  3. Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Amiram Nir, Zalman Weintraub, Anita Oliven, Judith Kelener & Miriam Lurie

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Nir, A., Weintraub, Z., Oliven, A. et al. Anatomic evidence of spontaneous intrauterine closure of a ventricular septal defect. Pediatr Cardiol 11, 208–210 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02238368

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