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Pulmonary artery sling: an unexpected finding on cardiac multidetector CT.
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A 38-year-old woman with a 6-month history of breathlessness and intermittent central chest pain was referred for an ECG-gated cardiac CT examination, which excluded significant coronary artery disease, but revealed an unexpected extracardiac finding.Abstract:
A 38-year-old woman with a 6-month history of breathlessness and intermittent central chest pain was referred for an ECG-gated cardiac CT examination. This excluded significant coronary artery disease, but revealed an unexpected extracardiac finding. The left pulmonary artery had an anomalous origin from the right main pulmonary artery and was seen to hook around and compress the right main bronchus before crossing to the left of the midline between the trachea and oesophagus to form a ring (fig 1). In addition, CT showed the proximal oesophagus to be mildly dilated (fig 2). The patient did not report any dysphagia on further questioning. Volume-rendered …read more
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Left pulmonary artery sling--anatomy and imaging.
Beverley Newman,Young ah Cho +1 more
TL;DR: Distinctive imaging findings are present when the left pulmonary artery arises from the right pulmonary artery and forms a sling around the airway passing between airway and esophagus to reach the left lung.
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Pertinent reportable incidental cardiac findings on chest CT without electrocardiography gating: Review of 268 consecutive cases
Garry Choy,Patric Kröpil,Axel Scherer,Ahmed H. El-Sherief,Jonathan H. Chung,Carlos A. Rojas,Suhny Abbara +6 more
TL;DR: The high volume of chest CT examinations without ECG gating represents an opportunity for radiologists to comment on the presence or absence of cardiac disease which may influence future clinical decisions.
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MDCT angiographic findings of various congenital pulmonary artery anomalies in pediatric patients
Mohamed M. Harraz,Ahmed H. Abou-Issa,Hala Aly Saleh,Khalid A. Attas,Samira M. Al-Yamani,Ganadiel Alsulami,Mohamed M. Refai +6 more
TL;DR: Higher quality multiplanar and 3D reconstruction achieved by the MDCT scanners offer a rapid, reliable and non-invasive technique that can be used for the evaluation and preoperative assessment of thoracic vascular and extra-vascular anatomy in infants and children with suspected congenital heart disease.
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An Adult Case of Pulmonary Artery Sling Accompanied by Tracheobronchomalacia
Sahoko Imoto,Ryosuke Satomi,Mayuko Watase,Matsuo So,Hiroaki Murakami,Sakiko Hosoo,Iio Miwa,Kazuyuki Fujimoto,Shigenari Nukaga,Kazuma Yagi,Sota Oguro,Takahiko Oyama,Ryoichi Kato,Yoshitaka Oyamada +13 more
TL;DR: An adult case of PA sling accompanied by tracheobronchomalacia found in a 49-year-old woman with a history of recurrent pneumonia is presented and the importance of focusing on the anatomic abnormalities in such cases is stressed.
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Non-Thrombotic Vascular Diseases of the Chest
TL;DR: In this chapter, the typical presentation, important laboratory, as well as imaging findings of the more common or clinically significant entities are reviewed.
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Congenital and Acquired Pulmonary Artery Anomalies in the Adult: Radiologic Overview
Eva Castañer,Xavier Gallardo,Jordi Rimola,Yolanda Pallardó,Josep M Mata,Joan Perendreu,Cesar Martin,Damian Gil +7 more
TL;DR: Assessment of the extent of heart effects in patients with pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary embolism is particularly important because such effects largely determine the prognosis.
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Rings, slings, and other things: vascular compression of the infant trachea updated from the midcentury to the millennium--the legacy of Robert E. Gross, MD, and Edward B. D. Neuhauser, MD.
TL;DR: In the first half of the 20th century, pediatric chest imaging was limited mainly to the performance of conventional radiography, including barium esophagography and occasionally bronchography and angiography, but by 1950 the diagnosis and treatment of vascular "rings" compressing infant airways had been accomplished with the pioneering efforts of Drs Gross and Neuhauser.
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Cardiovascular Pathology in Infants and Children
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the embryologic development of the heart, methods employed at post-mortem examinations, and the author's compiled data from more than 600 autopsies.