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10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.12463
A successful surgical repair of truncus arteriosus in a three-year-old boy
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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