TY - JOUR T1 - Partial atrioventricular septal defect in infancy: don’t we need to know more? JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 1470 LP - 1470 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2018-313491 VL - 104 IS - 17 AU - Duccio Di Carlo AU - Carolina Putuotto AU - Bruno Marino Y1 - 2018/09/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/104/17/1470.abstract N2 - To the Editor The paper by Krupickova and colleagues, recently published in Heart 1, exemplifies the resurgence of interest for the management of partial atrioventricular (AV) septal defect, an anomaly commonly thought to have excellent early and late survival.2 Alas, even simple things may conceal the risk of failure. The pioneering work of Manning and colleagues3 showed that patients with partial AV septal defect may be severely symptomatic in infancy and have an ominous outcome. We contributed to these concepts reporting our similar, unsatisfactory experience … ER -