Describing patients with discordant ventriculoarterial connections.

The cross sectional anatomy of ventricular septal defects: a reappraisal.

The cross sectional echocardiographic description of holes in the ventricular septum has been unsatisfactory, chiefly because there are so many classifications of this defect. The accurate description of the anatomy of individual defects, from cross sectional images, is more important than attempts to fit them into a preconceived classification. One hundred specimens of hearts with a ventricula...

Anatomic variability in coronary arterial distribution with regard to the arterial switch procedure.

BACKGROUND We investigated the coronary arterial origins and course and the position of the great arteries in hearts with discordant ventriculoarterial connections. At the same time, we sought to evaluate the practicality of alphanumeric classifications in accounting for surgically relevant features of the coronary arteries. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 200 postmortem hearts, noting the pat...

Describing Patients With Discordant Ventriculoarterial Connections

1. Garratt KN, Brady PA, Hassinger NL, Grill DE, Terzic A, Holmes DR Jr. Sulfonylurea drugs increase early mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus after direct angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:119–24. 2. The University Group Diabetes Program. A study of the effect of hypoglycemic agents on vascular complications in patients with adultonset diabetes. VI...

Prenatal screening of fetal ventriculoarterial connections: benefits of 4D technique in fetal heart imaging

BACKGROUND Identification of prenatal ventriculoarterial connections in fetuses with conotruncal anomalies (CTA) remains one of the greatest challenges for sonographers performing screening examinations. Herein, we propose a novel protocol of 4D volume analysis that identifies ventriculoarterial connections and evaluate its clinical utility in routine screenings. METHODS Twenty-nine cases of ...

Surgical treatment and operative results for patients with transposition of the great arteries.