Congenital affections of the heart / by George Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, George, 1859-1910.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Congenital affections of the heart / by George Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Failing this the pulmonary artery receives its blood supply indirectly from the left ventricle, communicating with this cavity by a perforate septum ventriculorum, and arising from a rudi- mentary right ventricle. This form of mal- formation, in comparison with deviated septum to the left, seldom occurs. Malformed hearts such as these usually present other abnor- malities which are not at all constant. Transposition of the Aorta and Pulmonary Artery.—In this condition, one of the most unusual, the aorta arises anteriorly from the right ventricle, the pulmonary artery pos- teriorly from the left. In the remarks on development, the natural division of the bulbus arteriosus into the aorta and pulmonary artery was described. Owing to the want of rotation of the septum on its long axis, it still maintains the lateral position of its broad surfaces as at the commencement, and with the above result. This transposition may be the only misplace- ment, as is usually the case, but the auricles and ventricles together with the veins may be in like manner transposed with these vessels. Such a condition may be found in transposition