Key result
Pregnancy in repaired truncus arteriosus triggers severe truncal valve regurgitation resolving within 2 weeks postpartum.
Case Report (n=1)
Pregnancy in patients with repaired truncus arteriosus may cause severe but reversible deterioration of truncal valve regurgitation, while still allowing for successful delivery.
May warrant close valvular monitoring in pregnancy after truncus repair; leaves open generalizability from this single case.
Truncus arteriosus, a rare and complex congenital heart disease, is hallmarked by a single great vessel (truncus) that arises over a large ventricular septal defect and provides both the pulmonary and systemic circulation. Pregnancy reports after repair for truncus arteriosus are scarce. Therefore, the maternal and offspring outcomes are unknown. We report the outcome of a pregnancy in an 18-year-old woman with repaired truncus arteriosus. Despite severe and symptomatic deterioration of truncal valve regurgitation, she successfully delivered a healthy child, and the valve function recovered within 2 weeks postpartum.
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Hoendermis et al. (2007) conducted a case report in Repaired truncus arteriosus and pregnancy (n=1). Pregnancy was evaluated on Maternal and offspring outcomes. Pregnancy in an 18-year-old woman with repaired truncus arteriosus caused severe truncal valve regurgitation, but she delivered a healthy child and valve function recovered within 2 weeks postpartum.
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