PMID: 28501844Jan 1, 2015Paper

Diagnostics enigma: left ventricular noncompaction or systemic right ventricle?

Wiadomości lekarskie : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
Danuta ŁobodaJacek Wilczek

Abstract

A case of congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries, a rare congenital heart defect diagnosed in an adult is presented and difficulties in differential diagnosis of congenital heart defects in the adults are described. The crucial point is proper interpretation of the echocardiography examination.

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