Selection of Patients with Truncus Arteriosus for Surgical Correction

Selection of Patients with Truncus Arteriosus for Surgical Correction

Six years have passed since the first successful surgical correction of truncus arteriosus. A review of our experience enables some conclusions regarding the operation. Patients with mild or moderate truncal valve incompetence do not need truncal valve replacement. Patients with severe truncal valve incompetence require valve replacement, which is associated with a significantly increased surgi...

Selection of patients with truncus arteriosus for surgical correction; anatomic and hemodynamic considerations.

Six years have passed since the first successful surgical correction of truncus arteriosus. A review of our experience enables some conclusions regarding the operation. Patients with mild or moderate truncal valve incompetence do not need truncal valve replacement. Patients with severe truncal valve incompetence require valve replacement, which is associated with a significantly increased surgi...

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 ...

Truncus arteriosus

Truncus Arteriosus

We have encountered difficulty in recognizing and identifying clinically true truncus arteriosus with pulmonary arteries (type 1) because of its resemblance to correctable cardiac defects such as patent ductus arteriosus, aortic-pulmonic defect, and ventricular septal defect. In the present report we are presenting clinical information on 14 patients with this anomaly, both to supplement the sc...