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Twisted atrioventricular connections in double inlet right ventricle: evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Tae Hoon Kim ,
Shi-Joon Yoo ,
Siew Yen Ho  and
Robert H. Anderson
Tae Hoon Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Sejong Heart Institute, Pucbeon, Korea;
Shi-Joon Yoo*
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Sejong Heart Institute, Pucbeon, Korea; Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;
Siew Yen Ho
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatrics, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom;
Robert H. Anderson
Affiliation:
Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom
*
Shi-Joon Yoo, MD, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada Tel (416) 813-6037 6029, Fax (416) 813-7591; E-mail. [email protected]
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Abstract

Twisted atrioventricular connections occur almost exclusively in the hearts with biventricular atrioventricular connections. Only one example of double inlet left ventricle has been illustrated in which the axes of the two atrioventricular valves crossed each other. We describe herein three patients, and one autopsied specimen, with double inlet right ventricle in which magnetic resonance imaging clearly demonstrated twisted atrioventricular connections.

Keywords

twisted atrioventricular connectionsdouble inlet right ventriclecriss-cross heartmagnetic resonance
Type
Original Articles
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 10 , Issue 6 , November 2000 , pp. 567 - 573
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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