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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1376
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

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Patients with truncus arteriosus do not have a patent arterial duct: True or false?

Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md

Received for publication November 3, 2007; accepted for publication December 16, 2007.

^_* Address for reprints: Luca A. Vricella, MD, FACS, Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe St–Blalock 618, Baltimore, MD, 21287. (Email: lvricella@jhmi.edu).

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It is commonly believed that in the absence of aortic arch interruption,¹ neonates given diagnoses of truncus arteriosus (or common arterial trunk [CAT]) should not have coexistence of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Simultaneous . . . [Full Text of this Article]