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,…
Chapter 6 Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries More than a century elapsed before Karl von Rokitansky1 applied the term corrected to a hitherto undescribed form of transposition of…
Chapter 28 Truncus Arteriosus Truncus arteriosus was recognized in 1798,1 and the clinical and necropsy findings were described in 1864.2 Humphreys summarized the reports up to 1932, and Lev and…
Chapter 16 Pulmonary Stenosis with Interatrial Communication In 1769, Giovanni Battista Morgagni1 described pulmonary stenosis with a patent foramen ovale, and in 1848, Thomas Peacock2 published “Contraction of the Orifice…
Chapter 22 Congenital Coronary Arterial Fistula Coronary arterial fistulas are the most frequent functionally significant congenital malformations of the coronary circulation; they comprise 14% of all congenital coronary artery anomalies…
Chapter 23 Congenital Aneurysms of the Sinuses of Valsalva Antonio Maria Valsalva, anatomist and pathologist, was born in 1666 in the historic Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The sinuses that…
Chapter 21 Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Trunk In 1886, St. John Brooks1 described two cases of “an abnormal coronary artery arising from the pulmonary…
