Persistent truncus arteriosus clinical manifestations
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Associate Editor-in-Chief: Keri Shafer, M.D. [2]
Clinical manifestations
- Cyanosis presents at birth
- Heart failure occurs within weeks
- Systolic ejection murmur is heard at the left sternal border
- Widened pulse pressure
- Bounding arterial pulses
- Loud second heart sound
- Biventricular hypertrophy
- Cardiomegaly
- Increased pulmonary vascularity
- Hypocalcemia (if associated with DiGeorge syndrome)