A successful surgical repair of truncus arteriosus in a three-year-old boy

Murat Koç,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.12463

Murat Koç¹, Ömer Faruk Çiçek¹, Mehmet Taşar¹, Sercan Tak¹, Vehbi Doğan², Hakan Aydın¹, Ali Kutsal¹

¹Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Pediatric Cardiology Surgery, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.12463

Truncus arteriosus is an extremely rare congenital heart disease in which a single great artery arises from the heart and supplies systemic, coronary, and pulmonary blood flow presenting with a ventricular septal defect. If left untreated, the majority of cases die within the first year of life. Herein, we report a three-year-old male case with type 1 truncus arteriosus who was successfully operated.

Keywords : Congenital heart defect; nitric oxide; truncus arteriosus

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