Introduction Chronic heart failure has long been recognized as a cause of considerable mortality and morbidity in adults. The early recognition of heart failure in the 17th and 18th centuries was that of edema, anasarca, and dyspnea, which was appropriately…
Introduction Common arterial trunk is an uncommon congenital cardiac lesion. The essential anatomic characteristic is the presence of a common ventriculoarterial junction that gives rise to an arterial trunk. This, in turn, gives rise to the systemic, pulmonary, and coronary…
Introduction The congenital malformation characterized by origin of the arterial trunks from morphologically inappropriate ventricles has probably been the source of as much confusion and controversy as any other single topic in pediatric cardiology. When Matthew Baillie described the first…