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Hypoplastic left heart syndrome in mirror-imaged arrangement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2005

Marcos V. C. Alves
Affiliation:
Section of Echocardiography, Hospital do Coração – Associação do Sanatório Sírio, São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

To date, almost all patients reported with hypoplasia of the left heart have had usual atrial arrangement, with a small proportion known to have left or right isomerism. As far as I am aware, however, only one patient has previously been described with mirror-imaged arrangement of the heart and organs. In this report, I describe the second case.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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