Tag Archives: truncus arteriosus

Case presentation An 18-year-old woman presented with a three-week history of subjective fevers, nausea and anorexia. Background history included congenital heart disease (CHD) with truncus arteriosus requiring right-ventricle-to-pulmonary-artery (RV-PA) conduit replacements, most recently with a 25-mm ‘Freestyle’ porcine conduit 10 years prior. She was not previously known to our centre. She had no regular medications and no recreational drug use. She originally presented with her three-week history to her general practitioner then twice to a peripheral hospital emergency department (ED) within one week. At all encounters, she was docume