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Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of partial left pulmonary artery sling: A rare case report
Author(s) -
Xu Ling,
Wang Limin,
Gai Yuanyuan,
Ma Qiuping,
Xiang Guanghua,
Ouyang Chunyan,
Shang Ning
Publication year - 2020
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.22913
Subject(s) - medicine , left pulmonary artery , pulmonary artery , right pulmonary artery , fetus , sling (weapon) , fetal echocardiography , cardiology , trunk , in utero , prenatal diagnosis , radiology , pregnancy , surgery , biology , genetics , ecology
Pulmonary artery sling is a rare congenital vascular anomaly. Partial anomalous left pulmonary artery is even rarer and no in utero observation has yet been reported. Here, we present the ultrasonographic findings of a 38‐year‐old woman at 32 weeks of gestation whose fetus showed a normal bifurcation of the pulmonary trunk into the right and left pulmonary arteries, but an anomalous origin of the left lower lobe pulmonary artery from the right pulmonary artery. These findings were confirmed by postnatal echocardiography and thoracic computed tomography.