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P Kader Muneer, Sajeer Kalathingathodika, Govindan Sajeev Chakanalil, Manuel M Sony
Department of Cardiology, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
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P Kader Muneer
Department of Cardiology, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala - 673 008
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-2069.126571
Crisscross heart is a rare congenital heart disease characterized by a twisted atrioventricular connection, as a result of rotation of the ventricular mass along its long axis. We report an asymptomatic 48-year-old woman referred to us for evaluation of a cardiac murmur. Further evaluation showed situs solitus, dextrocardia with normal atrioventricular and ventriculoarterial connection, and a crisscross relation of the atrioventricular valves. Unlike the usual case of crisscross heart, our patient had an intact ventricular septum.
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