[Origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle: anatomic and echocardiographic comparisons]

The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation. The A. N. Bakulev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, have developed anatomic and morphological criteria for the malformation. With the criteria, echocardiograms from 64 patients were retrospectively analysed and their anatomic and echocardiographic comparisons were made. The findings revealed the echocardiographic measures of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle and determines the optimal echocardiographic projections for their estimate.