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Echocardiographic assessment of a blalock‐taussig shunt
Author(s) -
Reitman Milton,
Goldberg Herbert,
Boris Gayle,
Bakst Alvin,
Gluck Regina
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870060118
Subject(s) - medicine , shunt (medical) , anastomosis , cardiology , pulmonary artery , right pulmonary artery , left atrium , right atrium , surgery , atrial fibrillation
A case of echocardiographic confirmation of the patency of a Blalock‐Taussig anastomosis is presented. Using the left atrium‐to‐aortic ratio (LA/Ao), we could document an increase in left atrial size representing an increase in pulmonary blood flow. This is the first report using echocardiography to prove the patency of a systemic‐to‐pulmonary artery anastomosis.
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