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A rare congenital anomaly: Pulmonary atresia and abnormal origin of right pulmonary artery

Author(s) -

Mevlüt Koç,

Kamuran Tekin,

Zafer Elbasan,

Durmuş Yıldıray Şahin,

Mustafa Kemal Batur,

Murat Çaylı

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

cardiology journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1897-5593

pISSN - 1898-018X

DOI - 10.5603/cj.2012.0036

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , pulmonary atresia , pulmonary artery , right pulmonary artery , atresia

A 22 year-old woman presented with dyspnea, central cyanosis and a pulsatile mass on her left neck. Echocardiography showed subaortic ventricular septal defect, aortic overriding and pulmonary atresia. Pulmonary valve and main pulmonary artery (PA) could not be visualized by echocardiography. Multi-detector computed tomography and selective right pulmonary angiography showed the right PA arising from the distal portion of the ar-

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