[Amniotic disease in the mother and severe heart abnormalities in 2 infants]

Detailed clinical presentation including radiographs and palmar dermatoglyphics of one young, healthy woman affected by hand and feet anomalies that at the outset looked alike brachydactyly type B but that are very likely brought about amniotic disease. The problem of genetic counseling came up after the death of two sons born with transposition of great vessels and septal defect but free from malformations of their mother.