Open AccessHemitruncus with ventricular septal defect in a 6-year-old child
Author(s) -
Sachin Talwar,
Ajay Kumar Meena,
Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan,
Shiv Kumar Choudhary,
Balram Airan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2069.115286
Subject(s) - medicine , girl , operability , cardiology , pulmonary artery , aorta , heart septal defect , psychology , developmental psychology , engineering , reliability engineering
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.