Double-outlet right ventricle with intact ventricular septum

Abstract

In the present case report, we describe a malformation consisting of a double-outlet right ventricle with an intact ventricular septum diagnosed in a 3-day-old female newborn. To our knowledge 35 cases have been described in the literature. The diagnosis was made by two-dimensional echocardiography and confirmed by angiocardiography. An inadequate opening in the interatrial septum and hypoplasia of the mitral valve and left ventricle were present. In this condition the only outlet of the left ventricle is via the atrial septal defect. Balloon atrial septostomy was performed. At 1 month of age the patient required a right modified Blalock-Taussig shunt and surgical atrial septectomy. Five months after surgery, the patient was in good clinical conditions.