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Practice Excercise 3 ( 4 Questions)

Question 1 of 4 :

A 2-week-old newborn is admitted with suspected truncus arteriosus Type I. When explaining the anatomy of this condition to the parents, which statement by the nurse is accurate?

A "Your infant has two separate heart valves, but the blood vessels are switched."

B "A single large artery arises from both lower chambers of the heart, with a short pulmonary trunk splitting off it."

C "The pulmonary arteries are entirely missing, and the lungs rely completely on small collateral vessels from the abdomen."

D "The right and left pulmonary arteries branch out completely separate from each other from the lateral walls of the heart."

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