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Transposition of the Great Arteries

1960; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 263; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm196010062631406

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Jacqueline A. Noonan, Alexander S. Nadas, Abraham M. Rudolph, G. B. C. Harris,

Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments

Physiologic DataBlood samples were obtained from a systemic artery, superior vena cava, right atrium and right ventricle in all 50 patients. The catheter was passed into the left ventricle either through a defect of the ventricular septum or from the left atrium, after passing through an atrial opening, in 45 patients, and in 39 of these all four chambers of the heart were entered.It was not possible to manipulate the catheter into the pulmonary artery in any of those in Group 1, but in 23 of the 37 in Group 2 this was accomplished (Table 11). The pulmonary . . .