Talk:Levo-Transposition of the great arteries

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My knowledge of l-TGA is limited, although I am currently in the midst of researching this and many other CHD's. In the meantime, if anyone could assist me with the editing of the illustration used on the dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries article, either by providing a rough sketch of l-TGA anatomy, or by downloading and editing the image itself (or partially editing and then emailing to me...whatever works best), I would be greatly appreciative.

I don't think this would be useful. The main anatomical differences between a normal heart and a l-TGA heart is the myocard of the subaortal ventricle, the subaortal outflow tract and the spatial relationship between the arteries. And neither of those show up on such a scetch. --Ekko 20:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I also would like to find at least one person who can collaborate with me on this article who has more knowledge on this subject than I do (or at least knows some of the parts I don't).bcatt 05:38, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I would really enjoy participating in this! I will try to write as much as I can, but if you have questions you could just mail me or go to my pages. In this case, we need something more on subaortal obstruction, systemic ventricle dilation and arrythmias. And the double switch procedure.--Ekko 20:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

It would be great to get some more work done here...I have put almost everything I know about l-TGA in so far, which is not much because I didn't even know there was two kinds of TGA until I started researching d-TGA. However, reading over the original writing, I had put that shunt defects were the most common to find in combination with l-TGA, but I am thinking now that stenosis may actually be more common...is this correct? I agree that getting some info about the double switch and other treatments is really important in filling out the article. I used the d-TGA article as a template for this one, leaving out the parts I didn't know about. I would probably be able to do some research and whip something up if I had a few guidelines on what needs to be included, so if you could do that part, we could probably get this article up to a better standard fairly soon. That's all the thoughts I have on that for now. bcatt 21:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice to see you back! I agreee on the above, but my garden looks terrible and vacation time in Norway is aproaching. So I have to put a two-month horizon on this.(Btw.: if you would like to expand on the article on Aortic coarctation there is some nice MR-pictures on Koarktasjon which I haven't had the time to do anything about. --Ekko 06:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Similar defects

In my opinion this is a list of almost everything. The only other heart defect that belongs here is d-TGA. --Ekko 20:30, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I'm back (finally)...I tried to include in this list all defects involving the great arteries. It seemed it would be helpful for those using wikipedia for research. No? bcatt 21:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I've added some. After some thought I think something also should be deletet, at least VSD. --Ekko 06:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)