From Double-Chambered Right Ventricle to Double-Chambered Left Ventricle: Unusual Evolution of a Ventricular Septal Defect

Raquel Luna-López; Teresa Segura de la Cal; Fernando Sarnago Cebada; Jorge Solís; Carmen Jiménez López-Guarch

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.08.018

From Double-Chambered Right Ventricle to Double-Chambered Left Ventricle: Unusual Evolution of a Ventricular Septal Defect

JACC Case Rep. 2022 Oct 19;4(20):1384-1386. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.08.018.

Authors

Raquel Luna-López¹, Teresa Segura de la Cal¹, Fernando Sarnago Cebada¹, Jorge Solís¹, Carmen Jiménez López-Guarch¹

Affiliation

¹ Cardiology Department, 12 Octubre Hospital, Center for Biomedical Research and Network in Cardiovascular Disease (Centro de investigacion Biomedica en Red para las Enfermedades Cardiovasculares), Madrid, Spain.

Abstract

We present the first imaging registry of the progressive isolation of an apical chamber of the right ventricle caused by the hypertrophy of the moderator band generated from the hemodynamic effect of a ventricular septal defect, leaving the apex of the right ventricle as an accessory chamber of the left ventricle. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: LV, left ventricle; RV, right ventricle; VSD, ventricular septal defect; congenital heart defect; double-chambered right ventricle; ventricular septal defect.