Autoptic and echocardiographic findings in seven foetuses with congenital heart anomalies, lung lobation defects and normal visceroatrial arrangement.

Congenital heart defects may be associated with various extracardiac and chromosomal anomalies, and complex cardiac defects may occur in the presence of heterotaxy syndromes, in which both lungs are bilobate, in left isomerism, or both trilobate, in right isomerism. Lung lobation defects are otherwise very rare. Lung lobation is recognisable only at autopsy; however, its definition is fundamental for evaluation of the visceroatrial arrangement, together with other characteristic signs.