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Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Heart Defects, Congenital > Transposition of Great Vessels
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Cardiovascular Abnormalities > Heart Defects, Congenital > Transposition of Great Vessels
Cardiovascular Diseases > Cardiovascular Abnormalities > Heart Defects, Congenital > Transposition of Great Vessels

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Transposition of Great Vessels  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Great Arteries Transposition
  • Great Arteries Transpositions
  • Transposition of Great Arteries

Scope note

  • A congenital cardiovascular malformation in which the AORTA arises entirely from the RIGHT VENTRICLE, and the PULMONARY ARTERY arises from the LEFT VENTRICLE. Consequently, the pulmonary and the systemic circulations are parallel and not sequential, so that the venous return from the peripheral circulation is re-circulated by the right ventricle via aorta to the systemic circulation without being oxygenated in the lungs. This is a potentially lethal form of heart disease in newborns and infants.

History note

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In other languages

  • valtasuonten vaihtuminen

    Finnish

  • aortan dekstropositio
  • aortan sijainti oikealla
  • connexio ventriculo-arterialis discordans
  • dextropositio aortae
  • diskordantti kammio-valtimoyhteys
  • suurten suonten transpositio
  • suurten suonten täydellinen transpositio
  • suurten suonten vaihtuminen
  • transpositio completa vasorum magnorum
  • transpositio vasorum magnorum
  • valtasuonten transpositio
  • Transposition av de stora kärlen

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014188

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