Persistent truncus arteriosus clinical manifestations

Associate Editor-in-Chief: Keri Shafer, M.D. [mailto:kshafer@bidmc.harvard.edu]

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)