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Evaluating the fetus with transposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2005

James C. Huhta
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics & Obstetrics and Gynecology, Daicoff-Andrews Chair in Perinatal Cardiology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Extract

Transposition, defined as concordant atrioventricular and discordant ventriculo-arterial connections, is a common neonatal congenital cardiac malformation.1 Repair of this lesion by means of the arterial switch in the neonatal period has progressed such that preoperative factors are playing a larger role in the postoperative outcomes.

Type
PART 3: TRANSPOSITION
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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