Echocardiography: an overview - Part III

Abstract

This review describes echocardiographic features of commonly encountered cyanotic congenital heart defects. Echo-Doppler characteristics of more commonly seen defects: tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, tricuspid atresia, total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, and truncus arteriosus were first discussed. Then, hypoplastic left heart syndrome followed by less commonly observed lesions such as double-outlet right ventricle, double-inlet left ventricle, interrupted aortic arch, pulmonary atresia with an intact ventricular septum, congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, Ebstein’s anomaly of the tricuspid valve, and mitral atresia with normal aortic root were reviewed.