Patterns of pain and fingers prints in congenital heart diseases

ABSTRACT

Concomitant with recent developments in human cytogenics, there has been a great awareness of the clinical importance of dermatoglyphics in the study of a wide variety of prenatally determined disorders, besides its application in medicological problems. Palm and fingers prints of both h and s were done for 42 patients with different forms of congenital heart disease [CHD] and 20 age and sex matched controls. A higher Whorls/loops index [107.7% and 33.9% respectively] was observed in patients than in controls. Palmar study showed significantly increased vestige pattern in the thenars and hypothenars of both h and s in the patients while arches pattern was significantly increased in the thenars and hypothenars of both h and s in the patients, while arches patterns Were significantly increased in the control group. Axial triradius [t] with significantly higher frequency in patients than controls [55% and 15%, respectively]. On the other h and, there were no significant differences in a-b count between the two groups