DERMATOGLYPHICS IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

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Abstract
Finger tip and hypothenar zone epidermal ridge patterns from 100 controls and 52 patients with congenital heart disease were compared.Although the population sizes are small, there appear to be dermatoglyphic features which distinguish these 2 groups and which may eventually prove to be useful diagnostic tools. In particular, a subgroup of 20 patients with tetralogy of Fallot differed from controls and patients with other cardiac defects by the frequent occurrence of whorls on all fingers, by the preferential increase of whorls on the middle, ring, and small fingers of the left hand and ring finger of the right hand, and by the frequent occurrence of loops in the right hypothenar region.Print position analysis is presented as a technique which may eventually serve as a bridge between population studies and individual cases.Simultaneous dermatoglyphic and cardiac differentiation is suggested as an explanation for the mechanism underlying the observed changes.It is concluded that further studies on dermatog...

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