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Prenatal diagnosis of interruption of the aortic arch and its association with deletion of chromosome 22q11
1 Oct 2002
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OBJECTIVES: Differentiation of interruption of the aortic arch (IAA) type A from type B by prenatal echocardiography is possible but difficult. We report nine consecutive cases of the prenatal detection of IAA and evaluate the feasibility of making a correct prenatal diagnosis with fetal echocardiography. The incidence of 22q11 microdeletion in our series, detected using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)...
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