Cor Biloculare With Truncus Arteriosus and Endocarditis

True cor biloculare is one of the rarest of cardiac anomalies. Maude Abbott,¹in an exhaustive study of congenital heart disease, found 10 cases in the literature reported by Wilson,²Farre,³Ramsbotham,⁴Forster,⁵Rudolf,⁶Konstantinowitsch,⁷Gierke,⁸Schroeder,⁹Jensen¹⁰and Rivet and Gerard.¹¹In a later article¹²she added a case communicated personally by Dr. Edward Weiss. A review of the literature to 1931 failed to reveal any additional cases, although Corsdress¹³reported one that anatomically was cor triloculare biatrium. The same is true of Baumgarth's case.¹⁴The latter cited numerous cases, but a study of these reveals the fact that mostly they are, anatomically, cases of cor triloculare even though functionally cor biloculare. REPORT OF A CASE History.—A girl, aged 5 months, was first seen in the dispensary of the Lenox Hill Hospital on Nov.