title: The trunk with a twist: right sinus origin of pulmonary arteries in a child with common arterial trunk.
abstract: Sinusal origin of pulmonary arteries in a patient with common arterial trunk is rare. We report echocardiographic diagnosis of this uncommon variant of common arterial trunk in an infant wherein pulmonary artery segment arose from anterior aspect of right truncal sinus very close to the right coronary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India drsaurabhmd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Saurabh Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Shyam S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kothari
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Radiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Gurpreet Singh
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Gulati
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Vinitha V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Palleti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rajashekar
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Balram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Airan
mesh_terms: D004062:DiGeorge Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography
keywords: common arterial trunk; conotruncal anomaly; sinusal origin