Parallel arterial trunks with discordant atrioventricular and concordant ventriculo-arterial connections in mirror-imaged arrangement

Cardiol Young. 2007 Oct;17(5):560-2. doi: 10.1017/S1047951107000947. Epub 2007 Jul 5.

Abstract

Cardiac malformations are very rare in which the great arteries arise from their appropriate ventricles, but are abnormally related to each other. Here, we present a patient with mirror-imaged atrial arrangement and a left-sided heart who has parallel arterial trunks with discordant atrioventricular and concordant ventriculo-arterial connections. The ventricles were related in supero-inferior fashion, the left ventricle being anterior and superior, this being an additional feature which, to the best of our knowledge, has not previously been described in this setting.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Atria / abnormalities
  • Heart Defects, Congenital* / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / abnormalities
  • Humans