Truncus arteriosis communis is the name given to a very rare heart defect in newborns caused by incomplete separation of the pulmonary arterial trunk from the arterial trunk of the systemic circulation. The aorta and pulmonary artery arise in a common trunk, resulting in mixing of the oxygen-depleted arterial blood of the pulmonary circulation with … Truncus Arteriosus Communis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
A heart defect or heart malformation is a congenital or acquired damage to the heart or individual heart structures and adjacent vessels that can lead to a functional impairment of the cardiovascular system or the heart–lung system. Frequency Approximately 6,000 children per year are born in Germany with a congenital heart defect, which is about … Heart defect
Therapy Surgery is probably the largest pillar of therapy, but it can also be treated by intervention and in the case of the ductus arteriosus botalli even by medication.In cardiac surgery, interventions on congenital heart malformations are divided into curative (healing) and palliative operations. In curative procedures, a normal function is surgically restored, resulting in … Therapy | Heart defect
