Angiographic Anatomy of the Normal Heart Through Axial Angiography

CEBALLOS, RICARDO M.D.
SOTO, BENIGNO M.D.
BARGERON, LIONEL M. M.D.

Departments of Pathology, Diagnostic Radiology, and Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama.

Address for correspondence: Benigno Soto, M.D. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Division of Cardiac Radiology, 619 South 19th Street, Birmingham, Alabama 35233.

Presented in part at the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology, London, England, June 3, 1980.

Received September 2, 1980; revision accepted November 25, 1980

Circulation 64(2):p 351-359, August 1981.

SUMMARY

We sectioned a series of hearts in a manner similar to that seen on angiographic axial views. A correlation with normal angiograms to identify the anatomic components of the four cardiac chambers showed that the components of the normal cardiac anatomy can he identified accurately through axial angiography in a manner not shown previously.