title: Twin heart with a fused atria and separate ventricles in conjoined twins.
abstract: One of the most interesting congenital malformations is that of conjoined twins. We report echocardiographic features of twin heart in dicephalus, tribrachius, dispinous, thoracoomphalopagus twin. It showed two hearts fused at atrial level. Right-sided heart had single atrial chamber with a single ventricle. A single great vessel, aorta, originated from it. Left-sided heart was well developed with two atria and two ventricles. There was a small mid muscular ventricular septal defect and a small patent ductus arteriosus. Great arteries had normal origins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Sameer Suresh
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Ambar
authors.forename: Prabhu C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Halkati
authors.forename: Suresh V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Patted
authors.forename: St
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yavagal