Persistent truncus arteriosus with survival to the age of 38 years.
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Persistent truncus arteriosus with survival to the age of 38 years.
The prognosis in persistent truncus arteriosus is very poor: the median age of survival of the 94 patients with the disease reported up to 1962 was only five weeks (Fontana and Edwards, 1962). Exceptionally, patients suffering from this disease live into the fourth decade. The longest survival reported is the case of the man described by Carr, Goodale, and Rockwell (1935) who lived to the age o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1966
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.28.2.284