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- Title
Multimodality imaging of anomalous pulmonary veins.
- Authors
Nepomuceno, Roman; Zeglinski, Matthew; Lerner, Jordyn; Czarnecki, Wlodzimierz; Kirkpatrick, Iain D. C.; Strzelczyk, Jacek; Jassal, Davinder S.
- Abstract
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is an extremely rare congenital condition where one or more of the pulmonary veins are connected to the venous circulation. Although initially suspected with unexplained right ventricular enlargement on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), cardiac MRI is able to delineate the anatomical variant. We present a case of a 65-year-old male diagnosed with left sided PAPVC using multimodality cardiac imaging.
- Subjects
PULMONARY veins; VENOUS valves; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; DIAGNOSTIC ultrasonic imaging; PULMONARY blood vessels
- Publication
Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1476-7120
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1476-7120-9-3