Abstract | INTRODUCTION: CASE DESCRIPTION: The current report describes the case of a 56 year old patient with an atrio-ventricular and ventricular-arterial discordance of the heart chambers without surgical correction, incidentally detected during hepatocellular carcinoma evaluation. The systemic venous blood arrived via the right atrium and a mitral valve in the morphologically left but pulmonary arterial ventricle that gave rise to a pulmonary trunk. The pulmonary venous blood passed the left atrium and the tricuspid valve into a morphologically right but systemic ventricle that gave rise to the aorta. DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION: The switched anatomy was incidentally detected on echocardiography. The patient was referred to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) including flow measurements, volumetry and late enhancement. CMR results showed a mildly impaired function and the switched anatomy. During a follow-up period of 2 years the patient was suffering from only mild heart failure and dyspnea. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Jan M Sohns, Michael Steinmetz, Heike Schneider, Martin Fasshauer, Wieland Staab, Johannes Tammo Kowallick, Andreas Schuster, Christian Ritter, Joachim Lotz, Christina Unterberg-Buchwald |
Journal | SpringerPlus
(Springerplus)
Vol. 3
Pg. 601
( 2014)
ISSN: 2193-1801 [Print] Switzerland |
PMID | 25392774
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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