Coronary Arterial Embolism in Persistent Truncus Arteriosus

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Abstract
CORONARY embolism is an uncommon condition that usually complicates some acquired disease such as valvular endocarditis or processes associated with thrombi or tumors within the left side of the heart.1 Rarely, coronary embolism may be paradoxical —that is, it may result from the escape of foreign material from the right side of the heart. The most common form of paradoxical embolism, whether it involves the coronary or other systemic arteries, is a complication of recurrent pulmonary embolism in subjects with developmentally normal hearts in which a valvular competent patent foramen ovale is present.2 In this circumstance nonfatal pulmonary embolism may . . .