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Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2013 Jul;6(2):194-6. doi: 10.4103/0974-2069.115286.

Hemitruncus with ventricular septal defect in a 6-year-old child.

Annals of pediatric cardiology

Sachin Talwar, Ajay Meena, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Shiv Kumar Choudhary, Balram Airan

Affiliations

  1. Cardiothoracic Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 24688246 PMCID: PMC3957458 DOI: 10.4103/0974-2069.115286

Abstract

We report a 6-year-old girl with anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the aorta associated with a large ventricular septal defect. The challenges in the assessment of operability and issues in the surgical management are discussed.

Keywords: Congenital heart disease; hemitruncus; pulmonary arterial hypertension

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