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Changes of management in a patient with double outlet left ventricle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Omar Galal ,
Liv Hatle  and
Zohair Al Halees
Omar Galal*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Liv Hatle
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Zohair Al Halees
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*
Dr. Mohammed Omar Galal, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases (MBC 16), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, PO. Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia. Tel: (966–1) 464–7272 ext.: 32056; Fax: (966–1) 442–7482; E-mail: Galal@kfshrc.edu.sa.
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Abstract

Double outlet left ventricle is an extremely rare anomaly. Until recently, the diagnosis was usually established by angiography or at postmortem. There are only a few reports describing the echocar-diographic findings in this lesion, and as far as we know, no report showing the anatomy as well as the velocity and pattern of flow by color Doppler echocardiography. The patient reported here underwent surgery at the age of four years, when an aortic homograft was placed between the right ventricle and the pulmonary trunk. This biventricular repair had to be changed into a Fontan-type procedure, 15 years later since the hypoplastic right ventricle did not grow adequately.

Keywords

Double outlet left ventricleechocardiographyangiography
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , November 1999 , pp. 602 - 605
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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