Specific Echocardiographic Findings Useful for the Diagnosis of Common Pulmonary Vein Atresia | Zendy

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Specific Echocardiographic Findings Useful for the Diagnosis of Common Pulmonary Vein Atresia

Author(s) -

Hiroyuki Nagasawa,

Kazuhiro Hirata

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

pediatric reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297

H-Index - 19

ISSN - 2036-7503

DOI - 10.4081/pr.2015.6228

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , diastole , pulmonary vein , pulmonary hypertension , atresia , pulmonary artery , pulmonary atresia , aorta , vein , heart disease , blood pressure , ablation

In this paper, we report a case of common pulmonary vein atresia, which is a very rare disease characterized by cyanosis, heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. Reverse flow in the pulmonary artery at end-diastole as well as in the isthmus of the aorta from early systole to end-diastole detected by echocardiography were found to be specific features useful in diagnosing the disease

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