Anatomical studies were made on 70 necropsied hearts with atrioventricular defects from patients with situs solitus and atrioventricular concordance, all having a common atrioventricular orifice. The arterial connections were concordant in 68 and were double outlet right ventricle in two; cases with arterial discordance (transposition) or single outlet of the heart were excluded. It proved pos...

ROMERO, TOMAS, JAMES COVELL, AND WILLIAM F. FRIEDMAN. A comparison of pressure-volume relations of the fetal, newborn, and adult heart. Am. J. Physiol. 222(5) : 1285-l 290. 1972.-A marked paucity of information exists concerning the physiological characteristics of the developing heart. The purpose of the present investigation was to analyze and compare the compliance of the right and left vent...