[Successful surgical correction of persistent truncus arteriosus by an aortic homograft]

I Hartyánszky; K Lozsádi; T Hüttl; K Kádár; E Sápi; L Király

[Successful surgical correction of persistent truncus arteriosus by an aortic homograft]

Orv Hetil. 1992 Jul 26;133(30):1893-5.

[Article in Hungarian]

Authors

I Hartyánszky¹, K Lozsádi, T Hüttl, K Kádár, E Sápi, L Király

Affiliation

¹ Semmelweis Orvostudományi Egyetem, II. sz. Gyermekklinika, Budapest.

PMID: 1635776

Abstract

After palliative procedure a 2 years old girl with congenital heart disease was corrected with aortic homograft. Truncus arteriosus is a rare congenital heart disease and this is the first successfully corrected case in our country. Using homograft in this age group improves the early and late result of this type of corrective surgery.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Angiocardiography
Aorta, Thoracic / transplantation*
Cardiac Catheterization
Child, Preschool
Echocardiography, Doppler
Female
Humans
Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / diagnostic imaging
Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / surgery*