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Fetal echocardiographic features of twisted atrioventricular connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Mustafa Abdullah ,
Shi-Joon Yoo  and
Lisa Hornberger
Mustafa Abdullah
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Shi-Joon Yoo
Affiliation:
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lisa Hornberger*
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Lisa K. Hornberger, MD, Division of Cardiology, The Hospital For Sick Children, 555 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario M5G1X8Canada. Tel: 416–813–6140; Fax: 416–813–7547; E-mail: hornberg@sickkids.on.ca
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Abstract

We present an example of corrected transposition with twisted discordant atrioventricular connections in which both fetal and postanatal echocardiograms were obtained. We correlate the fetal echocardiograms with the postanatal echocardiograms, placing emphasis on the echocardiographic clues to the diagnosis which were present in fetal life. The diagnosis should be suspected when the cardiac chambers and greatarteries show an unexpected spatial relationship for the given segmental connections, and when the axes of opening of the atrioventricular valves are not parallel.

Keywords

Twisted heartcriss-cross heartechocardiographyprenatal dagnosis.
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , July 2000 , pp. 409 - 412
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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