Tripathi Ravi Ranjan, Sridhar Anuradha, Chidambaram Shanthi
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Frontier Lifeline and Dr. K. M. Cherian Heart Foundation, Chennai, India.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2012 Jul 1;3(3):396-8. doi: 10.1177/2150135111434165.
We describe rare cases of common arterial trunk (truncus arteriosus communis) with unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect, left ventricular hypoplasia, and restrictive ventricular septal defect. The embryology, hemodynamics, and the clinical implications of this complex combination are discussed.