Criss-cross heart with intact ventricular septum |
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| Authors: | V F Fontes J A de Souza S C Pontes Jùnior |
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| Affiliation: | Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Hemodynamic Laboratory, Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil. |
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| Abstract: | We report a case of a criss-cross heart in a 6-month-old male child with echocardiographic and angiocardiographic findings of concordant atrioventricular and discordant ventriculoarterial connexions and an intact ventricular septum. This entity has been described with a ventricular septal defect as part of its own anatomic spectrum. The concept of the criss-cross heart, however, is best restricted to a form of spatial atrioventricular arrangement in which the atrioventricular connexions are criss-crossed. |
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