Introduction
Ectopia cordis is a Latin word meaning ‘outside’ and ‘heart’. So with that being said ectopia cordis is when the heart forms partially or completely outside of the chest cavity. Ectopia cordis is a genetic disorder they say but there is no evidence that it is genetically transmissible disease due to a case of an infant who was born with ectopia cordis but no record of family history with that disease.
It has been said that ectopia cordis occurs mostly in female infants. An estimate…
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