scholarly journals Differential Diagnosis of the Taussig-Bing Heart from Complete Transposition of the Great Vessels with a Posteriorly Overriding Pulmonary Artery

Circulation ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1071-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALOIS BEUREN
Author(s):  
I.N. Daminov

The case of prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of complete transposition of the great arteries and dextrocardia in the fetus with left juxtaposition of the atrial appendages and subpulmonary ventricular septal defect in the third trimester is presented. The postnatal echocardiography confirmed the prenatal diagnosis. At 2 months of life, first surgical intervention under extracorporeal circulation was performed: the arterial switch operation and narrowing of the dilated pulmonary artery root, closure of patent foramen ovale, ligation of patent ductus arteriosus. At the age of 8 months, the child underwent a second operation: closure of ventricular septal defect with the transventricular approach and plastic surgery of the pulmonary artery. After an operation third-degree atrioventricular block (bradyarrhythmias) has occurred and 2 weeks later patient's health improvement was achieved, and he underwent implantation of a single-chamber pacemaker. Currently, the child is 2 years old, physical and mental development corresponds to age and he remains under the supervision of specialists.


1957 ◽  
Vol 190 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Steggerda ◽  
Hiram E. Essex

Circulation through the heart of the turtle ( Chelydra serpentina) was studied by means of simultaneous recordings of oxygen saturation, blood-saturation dye curves and pressure measurements in the cardiac chambers and arteries leaving the heart. The saturation levels of the blood leaving the heart via the right and left aortas are the same while pulmonary artery blood is distinctly more venous. Resection of the septal mechanism resulted in oxygen saturations of similar value in all vessels leaving the heart. The dye curves showed that less than 10% of the blood of the turtle may pass from right to left but a much larger volume of blood passes from left to right. The findings in the turtle heart resemble those found in human patients with congenital ventricular septal defects. Blood pressure patterns in the carotid, subclavian arteries and the two aortas are very similar. Systolic pressures in the aortas and pulmonary artery are the same, but diastolic pressure in the pulmonary artery is distinctly lower than in the aortas.


1973 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Solinger ◽  
Francisco Elbl ◽  
Kareem Minhas

Radiology ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert L. Abrams ◽  
Henry S. Kaplan ◽  
Ann Purdy

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