Persistent truncus arteriosus: a rare finding in adults

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].

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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Correction of persistent truncus arteriosus.

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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Phonocardiographic Findings in Persistent Truncus Arteriosus * BENJAMIN

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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Phonocardiographic findings in persistent truncus arteriosus.

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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Persistent truncus arteriosus: a rare finding in adults

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