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Mechanism responsible for D-transposition of the great arteries: Is this part of the spectrum of right isomerism?
Congenital anomalies - 1 Sept 2016
Nakajima Yuji
Abstract excerpt
D-transposition of the great arteries (TGA) is one of the most common conotruncal heart defects at birth and is characterized by a discordant ventriculoarterial connection with a concordant atrioventricular connection. The morphological etiology of TGA is an inverted or arrested rotation of the heart outflow tract (OFT, conotruncus), by which the aorta is transposed in the right ventral direction to the pulmonary...
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