Morphology of intramural ventricular septal defects: Clinical imaging and autopsy correlation

Neil D Patel; Richard W Kim; Suwanna Pornrattanarungsi; Pierre C Wong

doi:10.4103/apc.APC_139_17

Morphology of intramural ventricular septal defects: Clinical imaging and autopsy correlation

Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2018 Sep-Dec;11(3):308-311. doi: 10.4103/apc.APC_139_17.

Authors

Neil D Patel^{1

2}, Richard W Kim^{3

4}, Suwanna Pornrattanarungsi^{1

2}, Pierre C Wong^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Divisions of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Abstract

An intramural ventricular septal defect (IVSD) is a type of interventricular communication that can occur following biventricular repair of a conotruncal malformation. There have been no previous reports depicting the actual pathologic anatomy of this defect. We describe two cases of IVSDs with their clinical imaging and postmortem pathology.

Keywords: Conotruncal malformation; intramural; ventricular septal defect.

Publication types

Case Reports