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Wong, Martin Ngie Liong Tang, Ing Ping Chor, Yek Kee Lau, Kiew Siong John, Anne Rachel Hii, King Ching Lee, Olive Pei Yi Lim, Wooi Kok Tan, Hannah Pei Koon
Published in
BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundHaemoptysis is an uncommon presenting symptom in children and is usually caused by acute lower respiratory tract infection or foreign body aspiration. We report a rare case of right unilateral pulmonary vein atresia (PVA) as the underlying aetiology of recurrent haemoptysis in a child.Case presentationA 4 years old girl presented with his...
DeMatteo, Valerie Quartermain, Michael D DiLorenzo, Michael Liu, Michael Tinker, Craig Cohen, Meryl S
Published in
CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Aparci, Mustafa Yalcin, Murat Isilak, Zafer Dogan, Mehmet Kardesoglu, Ejder
Published in
Acta Cardiologica Sinica
Cor triatriatum sinister (CTS) is a rare congenital abnormality. Clinical presentation of patients with CTS mainly depends on the anatomic features of membrane and may vary from mild or moderate symptoms mimicking mitral stenosis to more severe and complicated cardioembolic stroke or a new onset heart failure. We herein have reported on a young mal...
Vergales, Jeffrey E. West, Shawn C. Hoyer, Andrew W.
Published in
Pediatric Cardiology
Unilateral pulmonary vein atresia is a very rare congenital anomaly associated with high morbidity and mortality. Most cases present in infancy or childhood with recurrent respiratory infections or hemoptysis. Further, the diagnosis can often be difficult to make. We present an infant who died due to unilateral right-sided pulmonary vein atresia in...
Mataciunas, Mindaugas Gumbiene, Lina Cibiras, Sigitas Tarutis, Virgilijus Tamosiunas, Algirdas E.
Published in
Pediatric Radiology
We report a mildly symptomatic 12-year-old boy with a very rare congenital anomaly—isolated unilateral pulmonary vein atresia. Diagnosis was made using CT angiography and its role in diagnosis is discussed.
Tissot, Cécile Corbelli, Regula Aggoun, Yacine Beghetti, Maurice da Cruz, Eduardo
Published in
Pediatric Cardiology
An eight-month-old boy with findings of persistent left pulmonary basal infiltrate was diagnosed with congenital unilateral pulmonary vein atresia by bronchoscopy. Cardiac catheterization documented slow left pulmonary venous return to atretic pulmonary veins. Conservative treatment was chosen because the child was asymptomatic and corrective surge...