Heart and Palms.

Recently, a medical science called dermatoglyphics has found that creases of the hands can help in the diagnosis of disease. The doctors discovered that baby’s palm print could often show serious heart defects. They believe that any genetic or external factors that damage the organs of the developing fetus can affect the fingers, palm or sole prints. And indeed, researchers have detected a number of congenital and hereditary disorders that leave their marks on the hand or feet. They collected the fingers, palm and sole prints from 225 children diagnosed as having congenital heart defects and compared them with the prints of 400 persons without cardiac malformations. Finger and foot prints from both groups were the same. But the palm prints of the heart prints showed difference.

In a normal person there is a point at which three creases near the wrist form a kind of three pointed star. But in nearly all the heart patients, however, it was not situated near the wrist, but higher in the palm, towards the fingers. Doctors note that in many cases children with heart defects may show no symptoms until years after birth – and then it is often too late for successful surgery.

The researchers consider that hand prints should be used as a routing screening test for congenital cardiac disease in all babies.

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