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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

Suheyla Ozkutlu  and
Dursun Alehan
Suheyla Ozkutlu
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Dursun Alehan*
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
*
Correspondence to: Dursun Alehan, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100, Ankara, Turkey. Tel: 90 312 3051157; Fax: 90 312 3090220; E-mail: dalehan@hacettepe.edu.tr
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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.

Keywords

Anatomically corrected malpositionsuperoinferior ventriclessuperior left ventricleechocardiography
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 17 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 560 - 562
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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