Endocrine Abstracts

The high morbidity and mortality rate of women with Turner syndrome (TS) is primarily a results of the cardiovascular complications and so it is necessary an accurate and precocious diagnosis of this disease. Congenital cardiac anomalies, whose causes remains unknown, are common in TS (21–40%), in particular among patients with 45 X; between these the ventricular septal defect (VSD) is very rare (in a recent review, 3/1092 cases) (Gravholt 2004) and so in neonatal with VS...