Transposition of the great arteries: the importance of new strategies for rapid diagnosis
Abstract
Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA) is considered the predominant cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) of the neonatal period, accounting for 5-9% of cardiac malformations. In TGA, the ventriculo-arterial connection is considered discordant, as the ascending aorta arises abnormally from the morphological right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises abnormally from the morphological left ventricle, connected to the pulmonary trunk (YELBUZ et al., 2018). Therefore, the systemic and pulmonary circulations are in parallel rather than in series, causing oxygen-poor blood to circulate through the body and oxygenated blood to circulate through the lungs (SÉGUÉLA et al., 2016).
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Copyright (c) 2023 Daniella Acioli Lima de França, Ana Julia Peixoto Granja, Gabriel Cavalcante Calheiros de Melo, Paulo Arthur Cavalcante Leandro, João Victor da Silva Soares, Isabella Cristina Farias Nunes, Isabelle Ataíde Correia Lima Brandão, Fernanda de Almeida Amaral Grossl, Wanessa do Carmo FerreiraAuthor(s)
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Daniella Acioli Lima de França
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Ana Julia Peixoto Granja
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Gabriel Cavalcante Calheiros de Melo
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Paulo Arthur Cavalcante Leandro
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João Victor da Silva Soares
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Isabella Cristina Farias Nunes
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Isabelle Ataíde Correia Lima Brandão
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Fernanda de Almeida Amaral Grossl
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Wanessa do Carmo Ferreira