title: Severe pregnancy-induced deterioration of truncal valve regurgitation in an adolescent patient with repaired truncus arteriosus.
abstract: Truncus arteriosus, a rare and complex congenital heart disease, is hallmarked by a single great vessel (truncus) that arises over a large ventricular septal defect and provides both the pulmonary and systemic circulation. Pregnancy reports after repair for truncus arteriosus are scarce. Therefore, the maternal and offspring outcomes are unknown. We report the outcome of a pregnancy in an 18-year-old woman with repaired truncus arteriosus. Despite severe and symptomatic deterioration of truncal valve regurgitation, she successfully delivered a healthy child, and the valve function recovered within 2 weeks postpartum.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. e.s.hoendermis@thorax.umcg.nl
authors.forename: Elke S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Hoendermis
authors.forename: Willem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Drenthen
authors.forename: Krystyna M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sollie
authors.forename: Rolf M F
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D014339:Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography