Double outlet right atrium with coexisting double inlet left ventricle and concordant ventriculoarterial connections: a fascinating variant of the Holmes heart

Occasionally complex congenital cardiac disease presents for the first time in adulthood, encouraging us to reflect anew on our understanding of familiar conditions. A 59-year–old woman, who had had two normal pregnancies, attended with breathlessness and was found to have a double inlet left ventri...

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Published in:Cardiology in the young 2010-10, Vol.20 (5), p.587-589
Main Authors: Coats, Louise, Runnett, Craig, Satchithananda, Duwarakan K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abnormalities, Multiple
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Congenital cardiac disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Double Outlet Right Ventricle - diagnosis
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Atria - abnormalities
Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnosis
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial - diagnosis
Heart Ventricles - abnormalities
Holmes heart
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine
Middle Aged
Pulmonary arteries
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Summary:Occasionally complex congenital cardiac disease presents for the first time in adulthood, encouraging us to reflect anew on our understanding of familiar conditions. A 59-year–old woman, who had had two normal pregnancies, attended with breathlessness and was found to have a double inlet left ventricle with concordant ventriculoarterial connections and a straddling tricuspid valve adherent to the malaligned ventricular septum.
ISSN:1047-9511
1467-1107
DOI:10.1017/S1047951110000946