Chapter 18 Ventricular Septal Defect with Pulmonary Stenosis Ventricular septal defects with obstruction to right ventricular outflow encompass a wide range of anatomic malformations and their physiologic and clinical expressions….
Chapter 27 Complete Transposition of the Great Arteries In 1797, Matthew Baillie called attention to “a singular malformation in which the pulmonary artery arises from the left ventricle and the…
Chapter 8 Coarctation of the Aorta and Interrupted Aortic Arch In 1760, the Prussian anatomist, Johann Friedreich Meckel, characterized coarctation of the aorta as an “extraordinary dilatation of the heart…
Chapter 26 Univentricular Heart In 1858, Thomas Peacock described hearts in which “The auricular sinuses are separated by a more or less complete septum, and there are generally two auriculo-ventricular…
Chapter 7 Congenital Aortic Stenosis Congenital Aortic Regurgitation Clinical evaluation of congenital obstruction to left ventricular outflow seeks to establish the presence and degree of obstruction and the level and…
Chapter 3 Cardiac Malpositions “The heart may be congenitally misplaced in various ways, occupying either an unusual position within the thorax, or being situated external to that cavity.” Thomas B….
Chapter 11 Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis Congenital obstruction to right ventricular outflow in hearts with two noninverted ventricles originates in, below, or above the pulmonary valve. Three morphologic types of pulmonary…
Chapter 19 Double Outlet Ventricle The earliest report that alluded to double outlet right ventricle was published in French in 1703.1 Ninety years elapsed before an English-language publication appeared.2 In…
Chapter 13 Ebstein’s Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve In June 1864, a 19-year-old laborer was admitted to the All-Saints Hospital in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland, where he died 8 days…
Chapter 25 Tricuspid Atresia Tricuspid atresia was described in 1817,1 but almost a century elapsed before the great arterial relationships were defined.2 Because of the morphologic heterogeneity of the malformation,…
