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Supero-Inferior Ventricles, Criss-Cross Atrioventricular Connections and the Straddling Atrioventricular Valve

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Neonatal Heart Disease

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Supero-inferior ventricles, criss-cross atrioventricular connections, and straddling of either or both atrioventricular valves are not clinical or “stethoscope” bedside diagnoses. Rather these are diagnoses usually established by contemporary imaging modalities including cross-sectional echocardiography, angiocardiography, and there is now some experience with magnetic resonance imaging. Yet the implication of these diagnoses in the neonate with congenital heart disease may be far reaching, and for this reason these reasonably uncommon lesions are considered here.

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Freedom, R.M. (1992). Supero-Inferior Ventricles, Criss-Cross Atrioventricular Connections and the Straddling Atrioventricular Valve. In: Neonatal Heart Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1814-5_39

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