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Common arterial trunk associated with atrioventricular septal defect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Edmar Atik*
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatric Cardiology, Sao Paulo University School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Andressa Mussi Soares
Affiliation:
Echocardiography Sao Paulo University School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vera Demarchi Aiello
Affiliation:
Pathology, Heart Institute, Sao Paulo University School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*
Edmar Atik MD, Instituto do Coraçã – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Eneas Carvalho de Aguiar 44, 05403–000 São Paulo-SP, Brazil. Tel: 55 11 3069 5409; Fax: 55 11 282 2354; E-mail: conatik@incor.usp.br

Abstract

Described are the clinical, cross-sectional echocardiographic, electrocardiographic and angiographic findings, together with the results at autopsy, in a 5-month old infant with a common arterial trunk associated with an atrioventricular septal defect. As far as is known, this is only the 13th such case to be reported in the literature. A particularly unusual feature of this case was an intact atrial component of the atrioventricular septal defect.

Type
Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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