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The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2001 April;42(2):201-3

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Corrected transposition of the great arteries diagnosed in an 84-year-old woman

Yamazaki I., Kondo J., Imoto K., Suzuki S., Ichikawa Y., Yanagi H., Takanashi Y.

From the First Department of Surgery Yokohama City University School of Medicine Yokohama, Japan

Corrected trans­po­si­tion of the ­great arter­ies with­out asso­ciat­ed car­diac anom­a­lies is a ­rare car­diac mal­for­ma­tion. Few ­patients ­with ­this anom­a­ly sur­vive ­beyond 50 ­years of age ­because of system­ic ven­tric­u­lar dys­func­tion or devel­op­ment of AV val­vu­lar regur­gi­ta­tion or con­duc­tion dis­tur­bance. We ­describe an autop­sied, uncom­pli­cat­ed cor­rect­ed trans­po­si­tion of the ­great arter­ies ­case in ­which the ­patient ­died at 84 ­years of age. We ­believe ­this ­patient to be the long­est sur­viv­ing cor­rect­ed trans­po­si­tion of the ­great arter­ies asso­ciat­ed per­son in the ­world.