2022, Number 4
Single ventricle with common ventricular atrium valve with pulmonary atresia and abnormal drainage in the newborn. Case Report
Peña-Guevara H, Castañeda-Delgado ML, Quibrera-Matienzo JA, Figueroa-Vega JR
Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 338-344
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ABSTRACT
Heart disease represents the most common congenital malformations. The incidence of 8 to 10 per 1,000 live newborns, being the risk of suffering them 2-3 times higher in preterm newborns. Approximately half of these patients the clinic begins in the neonatal period. Univentricular heart is a rare congenital heart disease, patients with adequate lung tree development may be subsidiary to a heart transplant, if the usual palliation techniques are contraindicated. The case of a newborn with a diagnosis of prenatal heart disease, with cianosis, desaturation and effective systolic murmur in the pulmonary área is reported. The tomography and echocardi-ogram angiogram reporting common AV valve, single ventricle of left morphology and pulmonary valvular atresia. The patient required prostaglandin infusion, palliative surgery based of left modified Blalock-Taussing fistula, at 2 weeks hypoxic crisis without successful reversal and the patient dies.REFERENCES