Ectopia cordis Fyler:170 UMLS:C0013580 SNOMEDCT_US:78250005 Fyler:0170 See Moss and Adams 'Heart Disease in Infants, Children and Adolescents' p1168. Ectopia cordis has a very poor prognosis. Ectopia cordis is generally divided into five types: cervical, cervicothoracic, thoracic, abdominal, and thoracicoabdominal. Ectopia cordis is rare (5-8 per million live births), but the two most common forms are thoracic (59%) and thoracicoabdominal (38%). HP:0001683 Congenital malformation of the ventral wall with partial or total evisceration of the heart outside the thoracic cavity and through the defect in the ventral wall. Abnormal anatomic location of the heart