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Interrupted aortic arch: An epidemiologic study
1 May 2000
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BACKGROUND: Interruption of the aortic arch (IAA) is a rare but severe anomaly associated with major intracardiac defects and with multisystem noncardiac malformations, recently linked to chromosome deletion of 22q11.2. METHODS: The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study (1981-1989), a population-based epidemiologic study of cardiovascular malformations, evaluated 53 infants with IAA in comparison with 3,572 controls....
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