Persistent truncus arteriosus categories associated with different natural histories and various surgical approaches were reported. Although pulmonary overflow and severe heart failure are common, some patients who have hypoplastic pulmonary artery systems may show lesser symptoms of heart failure and remain in relatively stable condition. We experienced a 33-year-old woman with uncorrected typ...

The widespread application of echocardiography to the field of congenital heart disease has led to the development of a concept of "echocardiographic discontinuity" for the diagnosis of some conditions. Although this is a valuable sign in differentiating such entities as tetralogy of Fallot, truncus arteriosus and double outlet right ventricle, the reported cases illustrate that the echocardiog...

The combination of patent (luctus arteriosus land coarctation of the aorta poses special anatomic, physiologic and surgical proldems. An experience with 14 such cases is presented, wVhich suggests that pulmonary hypertension occurs frequently in these cases. Physiologic data in cases having coarctation of the aorta, patent (luctus arteriosus and pulmonary hypertension that underwent cardiac cat...

Ninety-four patients with patent ductus arteriosus, whose ages ranged from 28 weeks gestation to 8 years, were assessed by suprasternal cross-sectional echocardiography. A further group of 37 cases without a patent ductus arteriosus were assessed by the same technique. The appearances of the ductus via this approach varied according to the ventriculoarterial connections. Reliable assessment of ...

Ibuprofen is a well-known agent used to treat patent ductus arteriosus in preterm neonates in the first days of life. In the current case report we illustrate the potential use of ibuprofen in two preterm neonates 60 and 88 days after birth, respectively. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the effects of ibuprofen on patent ductus arteriosus in preterm newborns after months of life. ...

Hallidie-Smith, K. A. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 725. Murmur of persistent ductus arteriosus in premature infants. A longterm survey of the repeated clinical examination of premature newborn infants is reported. There were 52 infants in whom there was well-documented clinical and phonocardiographic evidence of delayed closure of the ductus arteriosus. The ductus is believed t...

The combination of patent (luctus arteriosus land coarctation of the aorta poses special anatomic, physiologic and surgical proldems. An experience with 14 such cases is presented, wVhich suggests that pulmonary hypertension occurs frequently in these cases. Physiologic data in cases having coarctation of the aorta, patent (luctus arteriosus and pulmonary hypertension that underwent cardiac cat...

Patent ductus arteriosus in the adult is an extremely rare clinical phenomenon. We report the case of a 34-year old man who developed pulmonary endarteritis and subsequent embolic lung abscess secondary to a large patent ductus arteriosus. This brief report also provides an overview of the natural history, potential complications, optimal therapy, and diagnostic dilemmas associated with this pe...