title: Parallel arterial trunks with discordant atrioventricular and concordant ventriculo-arterial connections in mirror-imaged arrangement.
abstract: Cardiac malformations are very rare in which the great arteries arise from their appropriate ventricles, but are abnormally related to each other. Here, we present a patient with mirror-imaged atrial arrangement and a left-sided heart who has parallel arterial trunks with discordant atrioventricular and concordant ventriculo-arterial connections. The ventricles were related in supero-inferior fashion, the left ventricle being anterior and superior, this being an additional feature which, to the best of our knowledge, has not previously been described in this setting.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Suheyla
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozkutlu
authors.forename: Dursun
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alehan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000002:abnormalities; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans