Chapter III/2: Complex congenital heart defect – DORV

Tibor Glasz

The chapter structure

• III/2.1: Main data of the presented specimen case

• III/2.2: Description of the specimen

  • III/2.2.1: General description

  • III/2.2.2: Description of the heart of a pathological point of view

  • III/2.2.3: Description of the heart of a circulatory point of view

  • III/2.2.4: Patological description of the trachea and esophagus

• III/2.3: Double-outlet right ventricle – DORV

• III/2.4: Tetralogy of Fallot as a special form of DORV

  • III/2.4.1: General description

  • III/2.4.2: Ventricular septal defect (VSD)

  • III/2.4.3: Right outflow tract stenosis

  • III/2.4.4: Further disorders: coronary and other structural heart abnormalities

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