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Solitary arterial trunk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Daniel J. Penny ,
Rakesh Dua  and
James L. Wilkinson
Daniel J. Penny*
Affiliation:
The Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Rakesh Dua
Affiliation:
The Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
James L. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
The Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
*
Dr. Daniel J. Penny, Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia.
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Abstract

A heart is described in which there was a solitary arterial trunk that exited from the heart astride a large perimembranous ventricular septal defect, with the pulmonary arterial supply originating entirely from collaterals from the descending aorta. There was no evidence of either hilar pulmonary arteries or an atretic pulmonary trunk. The morphology of the ventricular outlet component, with absence of the outlet septum supports the description of this heart as solitary arterial trunk, rather than tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia.

Keywords

Solitary arterial trunkpulmonary atresiacoronary arterial supply
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 71 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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