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Biaxial Mechanical Characterizations of Atrioventricular Heart Valves
Published on: April 9, 2019
Twisted atrioventricular valves in double inlet left ventricle
Kazuhiro Mori1, Masafumi Harada, Yasuhiro Kuroda
1Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima-city, Japan. tonmaru@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Twisted atrioventricular connections usually occur in hearts with biventricular artioventricular connections. Here, we describe a case of twisted atrioventricular valves associated with double inlet left ventricle and discordant ventriculo-arterial connections. Color Doppler echocardiography, and cine magnetic resonance imaging, clearly demonstrated that the right atrioventricular valve was located anterior and superior to the left atrioventricular valve, and that the axes of the two atrioventricular valves crossed each other within the dominant left ventricle.
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