1. Infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage: a diagnostic challenge.
- Author
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Silva CM, Oporto VM, Silveira P, Bertini A Jr, Kapins CE, and Carvalho AC
- Subjects
- Blood Flow Velocity, Echocardiography, Doppler, Color, Female, Heart Defects, Congenital surgery, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Pulmonary Veins diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Veins surgery, Regional Blood Flow, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnostic imaging, Pulmonary Veins abnormalities
- Abstract
Infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage can be erroneously diagnosed as respiratory distress of several different etiologies during the neonatal period. A cross-sectional echocardiography study with Doppler color flow mapping can preoperatively determine the precise drainage site and pulmonary venous return pattern, thereby allowing cardiac surgery to be performed promptly, prior to any clinical deterioration.
- Published
- 2007
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