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Twisted atrioventricular valves in double inlet left ventricle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Kazuhiro Mori ,
Masafumi Harada  and
Yasuhiro Kuroda
Kazuhiro Mori*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-city, Japan
Masafumi Harada
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-city, Japan
Yasuhiro Kuroda
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-city, Japan
*
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima-city, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan. Tel: 81-886-33-7135; Fax: 81-886-31-8697; E-mail: tonmaru@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

Twisted atrioventricular connections usually occur in hearts with biventricular artioventricular connections. Here, we describe a case of twisted atrioventricular valves associated with double inlet left ventricle and discordant ventriculo-arterial connections. Color Doppler echocardiography, and cine magnetic resonance imaging, clearly demonstrated that the right atrioventricular valve was located anterior and superior to the left atrioventricular valve, and that the axes of the two atrioventricular valves crossed each other within the dominant left ventricle.

Keywords

Criss-cross heartfunctionally univentricular heartmagnetic resonance imaging

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Brief Reports
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , July 2002 , pp. 401 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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