Talk:Ectopia cordis

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Christopher Wall

This section reads like it was originally a newspaper article. It's certainly not encyclopaedic in style ("miracle of life"?!). It also needs references. Hairy Dude 14:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Massive Edits

Made a ton of changes. Sorry I missed the edits summary part.. Both the Youtube link (“Guiness…”) and Wise Geek links in references were broken. I could not find an update youtube clip, so I removed that link. I was able to fix the wise geek link, but moved it external links due to questionable reliability. I question the reliability of "Wise Geek" because her original article does not cite any references and the author does not have a medical or science background. It appears a fair amount of the information was liberally plagiarized from Wise Geek, so I removed a bunch of it. I was unable to verify much of Wise Geek's information via academic literature search of PubMed, Access Medicine, or MD Consult. If someone can verify it, please cite it and re-instate those portions. Due to the need for multiple citation uses, I change the references to a reflist. This is personal preference for clarity of the relevant citation on my part -- I'm unsure of how it adheres to wiki MoS. I removed the heading “Cause,” as it is not very specific in medical contexts (few diseases have 100% direct causation). Risk Factors or Etiology under might work, but I just lumped it under "Pathology."

Nfrogge (talk) 05:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Emerging treatments

In October 2012, a team of physicians at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas performed perinatal surgery on a patient with partial ectopia cordis. ^[1] (http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/1353433158-Texas-Childrens-Hopsital-Operate-On-Baby-With-Rare-Heart-Defect.html) As of November 2012, the patient was doing well and expected to recover fully with a normal lifespan.

Dianaramadani (talk) 23:33, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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