EDUCATIONAL SERIES IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: Echocardiographic assessment of transposition of the great arteries and congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

Meryl S Cohen; Luc L Mertens

doi:10.1530/ERP-19-0047

EDUCATIONAL SERIES IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: Echocardiographic assessment of transposition of the great arteries and congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

Echo Res Pract. 2019 Dec 1;6(4):R107-R119. doi: 10.1530/ERP-19-0047. Print 2019 Dec 1.

Authors

Meryl S Cohen¹, Luc L Mertens²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Division of Cardiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Echocardiographic assessment of patients with transposition of the great arteries and congenitally corrected transposition requires awareness of the morphology and commonly associated lesions. The pre-operative echocardiography should include a full segmental and sequential analysis. Post-operative assessment is not possible without awareness of the type of surgical procedure performed and consists of assessing surgical connections and residual lesions.

Keywords: congenital heart defects; congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries.