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d-Transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) is the most common form of congenital heart disease that presents with cyanosis in a newborn. The aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from the left ventricle. It constitutes 3.8 % of all congenital cardiac defects. Forty percent of patients with d-TGA have an associated ventricular septal defect. Among patients with d-TGA, 6 % of those with intact ventricular septum and 31 % of those with ventricular septal defect have associated pulmonary stenosis.
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Driscoll, D.J. (2016). Clinical Presentation and Therapy of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries. In: Rickert-Sperling, S., Kelly, R., Driscoll, D. (eds) Congenital Heart Diseases: The Broken Heart. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1883-2_34
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