Prenatal diagnosis of criss-cross heart with congenitally corrected
transposition of the great arteries and aortic coarctation - case report
Abstract
This paper presents an extremely rare and difficult case report of
criss-cross heart (CCH) with a combination of cc-TGA and aortic
coarctation of the fetal heart at 33 weeks of gestation. Despite very
complicated heart anatomy, the proper perinatal care and early cardiac
surgery allowed us to observe normal development of the child without
any problems during his first six and ten months of postnatal life. The
impossibility to: image proper four-chamber view, obtain parallel
tricuspid and mitral valve, visualize symmetrical valve motion and
laminar flow from the atrium to the ventricle might be the first clues
to diagnose CCH.