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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 148-150 |
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A rare form of presentation of truncus arteriosus in adult
Deepesh Venkatraman, Monika Bhandari, Tanmay Mukhopadhyay, Biswajit Majumder, Debabrata Bera
Department of Cardiology, Radha Gobinda Kar Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Deepesh Venkatraman
IA - 112, Sector - 3, Salt Lake, Kolkata -700 097, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0189-7969.152034
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Truncus arteriosus is a rare congenital heart disease with average survival up to 5 weeks, and unrepaired truncus cases surviving into adulthood are very few. For these reasons, the natural history of the unrepaired defect is not very well-known, and is backed by only a handful of such cases that are reported. We report this very rare case of adult survival of an uncorrected truncus arteriosus, with certain aspects of presentation unique and insightful with regards to its natural history. |
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