Abstract
Trisomy 18 is a rare genetic disorder (1/6000 liveborn infants), with controversial issues nowadays regarding the intensive medical interventions, as 8-12% of children survive beyond the first year, with a satisfactory quality of life. The clinical features are specific and the cardiac malformations usually confer the gravity of the case, with high mortality during the first weeks after delivery and during the first year of life (about 90%). We present the case of a girl with trisomy 18, with complex cardiac malformation, for which no surgery was indicated, who died at the age of 5 months due to acute pneumonia.
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