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A unique case of ventricular isomerism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Katy Rinne ,
Audrey Smith  and
Siew Yen Hot
Katy Rinne
Affiliation:
Paediatrics, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine, Royal Brompton Campus, London, UK
Audrey Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Siew Yen Hot*
Affiliation:
Paediatrics, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine, Royal Brompton Campus, London, UK
*
Dr S. Y. Ho, Paediatrics, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK. 44 0171 351 8752; fax: 44 0171 351 8230; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Isomerism of the atriums has often been described with various complex cardiac malformations. As far as is known, a case of ‘ventricular isomerism’ has never been recorded. Described is a specimen where, on the basis of morphological criterions, there are two right ventricles.

Keywords

Ventricular isomerismcardiac morphologycongenital heart disease
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 42 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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