Long-Term Follow-Up of Persistent Truncus Arteriosus: Kuwait Experience
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Persistent Truncus Arteriosus
PERSISTENT truncus arteriosus is one of the rarer congenital cardiac anomalies. Keith et al.1 cite the incidence to be less than 1 per cent of their congenital cardiac patients Abbott2 found 21 in her autopsy series of 1,000 cases and Wood3 had one in his clinical series of 900. Collett and Edwards4 reviewed, in an excellent study of 80 autopsied cases, the pathology of truncus arteriosus. The ...
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PERSISTENT truncus arteriosus is one of the rarer congenital cardiac anomalies. Keith et al.1 cite the incidence to be less than 1 per cent of their congenital cardiac patients Abbott2 found 21 in her autopsy series of 1,000 cases and Wood3 had one in his clinical series of 900. Collett and Edwards4 reviewed, in an excellent study of 80 autopsied cases, the pathology of truncus arteriosus. The ...
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Successful correction of a type 2 truncus arteriosus in an African boy of 10 years is reported. The surgical technique employed is described and preoperative and late postoperative haemo-dynamic data are documented. Failure of the primitive truncus arteriosus to partition results in one of a group of congenital cardiac anomalies called persistent truncus arteriosus. A single vessel, guarded by ...
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OBJECTIVE This study aims to analyse long-term results after correction of truncus arteriosus in all patients operated in one institution over 28 years. METHODS Between 1981 and 2009, 83 patients, median age 54 days, underwent repair of truncus arteriosus. Interrupted aortic arch was present in 14 (17%), severe truncal valve insufficiency in 10 (12%) and non-confluent pulmonary arteries in fi...
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Persistent truncus arteriosus is characterized by a single arterial trunk arising from the heart and supplying the systemic, pulmonary, and coronary circulations. There are remnants neither of an atretic pulmonary artery nor aorta (Lev and Saphir, 1942; Collett and Edwards, 1949). Despite excellent clinical reviews (Anderson, Obata, and Lillehei, 1957; Tandon, Hauck, and Nadas, 1963; McCue et a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Principles and Practice
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1423-0151,1011-7571
DOI: 10.1159/000334590