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4.Heather, a newborn baby, needs surgery because she was born with an aorta that arises from the right ventricle and a pulmonary trunk that issues from the left ventricle, a condition called transposition of the great vessels. What are the physiological consequences of this defect?
Source  Marieb, E, & Hoehn, K. (2008). Human anatomy and physiology (8th ed.)
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Your blood flow circuits would not function properly. You would be pumping oxygen poor blood into the aorta and body thus starving the body of much needed oxygen.
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