Mystery still unresolved: Untouched “Blue heart” presenting at 40yrs of age

The modern-day surgical techniques and strategies have changed the outlook of patients with dextro-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA). The survival of an unrepaired d-TGA into late adulthood is difficult to explain. Even when large intracardiac shunts are present, it still remains a lethal cyan...

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Autores principales: Naganur, Sanjeev H, Tiwari, Ashish, Pruthvi, CR
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6979036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32030038
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_149_18
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description The modern-day surgical techniques and strategies have changed the outlook of patients with dextro-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA). The survival of an unrepaired d-TGA into late adulthood is difficult to explain. Even when large intracardiac shunts are present, it still remains a lethal cyanotic congenital heart disease if it is not surgically corrected soon after birth. Here, we report an extremely rare case of d-TGA presenting at 40 years of age, with moderately elevated pulmonary artery pressures and relatively stable symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-69790362020-02-06 Mystery still unresolved: Untouched “Blue heart” presenting at 40yrs of age Naganur, Sanjeev H Tiwari, Ashish Pruthvi, CR Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report The modern-day surgical techniques and strategies have changed the outlook of patients with dextro-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA). The survival of an unrepaired d-TGA into late adulthood is difficult to explain. Even when large intracardiac shunts are present, it still remains a lethal cyanotic congenital heart disease if it is not surgically corrected soon after birth. Here, we report an extremely rare case of d-TGA presenting at 40 years of age, with moderately elevated pulmonary artery pressures and relatively stable symptoms. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2019-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6979036/ /pubmed/32030038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_149_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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