Abstract
Triploidy is not rare and present in about 1% of all recognized human pregnancies, although most of these pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion during the first trimester. Survival of the fetus up to 20 weeks or beyond is rare. Therefore, liveborn infants with triploidy are very rare. Here is a report on a female liveborn infant with triploidy (69,XXX), who was born to a 27-year-old healthy mother. The clinical features are growth retardation, head-to-body disproportion, wide posterior fontanelle, hypertelorism, micrognathia, bilateral pre-auricular polyps, syndactyly of left 3rd and 4th fingers, syndactyly of right 2nd and 3rd fingers and talipes equinovarus. The infant died 4 hours after birth. The autopsy revealed transposition of great vessels, ventricular septal defect, one lobe of left lung and 2 lobes of right lung and duodenal atresia.
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