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Overriding aorta

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Medical condition
Overriding aorta
Diagram of a healthy heart and one suffering from overriding aorta
SpecialtyCardiac surgery

An overriding aorta is a congenital heart defect where the aorta is positioned directly over a ventricular septal defect (VSD), instead of over the left ventricle. The result is that the aorta receives some blood from the right ventricle, causing mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, and thereby reducing the amount of oxygen delivered to the tissues.

It is one of the four findings in the classic tetralogy of Fallot. The other three findings are right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction (most often subpulmonary stenosis), right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), and ventricular septal defect (VSD).

References

  1. "Overriding aorta (Concept Id: C0265886) - MedGen - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 31 October 2021.

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ClassificationD
Congenital vascular defects / Vascular malformation
Great arteries/
other arteries
Aorta
Pulmonary artery
Subclavian artery
Umbilical artery
Great veins
Superior/inferior vena cava
Pulmonary vein
Arteriovenous malformation


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