Common arterial trunk associated with atrioventricular septal defect

Described are the clinical, cross-sectional echocardiographic, electrocardi ographic and angiographic findings, together with the results at autopsy, i n a 5-month old infant with a common arterial trunk associated with an atri oventricular septal defect. As far as is known, this is only the 13th such case to be reported in the literature. A particularly unusual feature of th is case was an intact atrial component of the atrioventricular septal defec t.