[Persistence of the primitive aortic conus in normal positioning of the great vessels of the heart. A contribution to the formal independence of bulbar contraction inhibition]

Abstract

A hitherto undescribed cardiac malformation, characterized by persistence of the primitive aortic conus and normal positioning of the great vessels, is reported and used to discuss the theory of bulbar resorption and the hypothesis of conal growth. The persistence of the primitive aortic conus is explained by the absence of bulbar contraction. The present selective inhibition of bulbar involution in normal positioning of the great vessels shows it to be a phenomenon formally independent of the transposition. Thus, the concept explaining the formal genesis of transposition is explained by arrest of torsion of the bulbar truncus is reconfirmed.