Successful surgical palliation of a triple-outlet right ventricle: a rare congenital cardiac malformation.
Most commonly, hearts have either a single arterial trunk or two arterial trunks; however, rare reports exist of a "tritruncal" heart, a heart with three outflow tracts. Here, we present one of the first reports of successful surgical palliation of a triple-outlet right ventricle.
1University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,Rochester,New York,United States of America.
Beatrix S
BS
Traa
2Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery,Department of Surgery,University of Rochester Medical Center,Rochester,New York,United States of America.
George M
GM
Alfieris
3Department of Pediatrics,Division of Pediatric Cardiology,University of Rochester Medical Center,Rochester,New York,United States of America.
Carol A
CA
Wittlieb-Weber
D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*
Paediatrics; congenital heart disease; conotruncal malformation