View source for Levo-transposition of the great arteries differential diagnosis

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{{CMG}}; '''Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief:''' [[Priyamvada Singh|Priyamvada Singh, M.B.B.S.]] [mailto:psingh@perfuse.org]; {{CZ}}; [[User:KeriShafer|Keri Shafer, M.D.]] [mailto:kshafer@bidmc.harvard.edu]; '''Assistant Editor(s)-In-Chief:''' [[Kristin Feeney|Kristin Feeney, B.S.]] [mailto:kfeeney@perfuse.org]

==Overview==

==Differentiating L-transposition of the great arteries from other Disease==
Patients with tricuspid atresia should be differentiated from other cardiac and non-cardiac causes of cyanosis-

Cardiac causes (starts with 't')-

* [[Tetralogy of Fallot]]
* [[Truncus arteriosus]]
* [[Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection]]
* Other tricuspid valve abnormalities like tricuspid regurgitaton, [[tricuspid stenosis]]

Other less common causes are- [[pulmonary atresia]], [[hypoplastic left heart syndrome]], [[anomalous systemic venous connection]].

Non-cardiac causes 

* Pulmonary diseases - Structural abnormalities of the lung, V/P (ventilation-perfusion mismatch), airway obstruction, [[pneumothorax]], and [[hypoventilation]].
* Abnormal hemoglobin like [[methemoglobin]], [[polycythemia]]
* [[Peripheral cyanosis]] for e.g. [[sepsis]], [[hypoglycemia]], [[dehydration]], and [[hypoadrenalism]].

==References==
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[[Category:Congenital heart disease]]