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Case Reports
. 2023 Apr 10;5(2):102-105.
doi: 10.36628/ijhf.2023.0003. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Pulmonary Hypertension With Unilateral Pulmonary Vein Atresia

Bong-Joon Kim  1 , Soo-Jin Kim  1 , Sung-Il Im  1 , Hyunsu Kim  1 , Jung-Ho Heo  1 , Tae-Won Jang  2
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Case Reports

Pulmonary Hypertension With Unilateral Pulmonary Vein Atresia

Bong-Joon Kim et al. Int J Heart Fail. .
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Conflict of Interest: The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography. (A) Pulmonary artery dilatation (pulmonary trunk as 4.2 cm) rather than that of the ascending aorta at 3.0 cm. (B) Mainly unilateral smooth interlobular septal thickenings and areas of ground-glass opacity or consolidations, peripheral areas predominate in the left lung.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Lung perfusion scan. Lung perfusion scan showing a perfusion defect in the entire left lower lobe and severe perfusion decrease in the left upper lobe.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Pulmonary angiogram. (A) Pulmonary angiogram from the main PA showed hypertrophy of the main and Rt. PAs and decreased perfusion of the Lt. upper and lower lung zones. (B) Contrast drain into the Lt. atrium through the Rt. PV (yellow arrow) was observed, but contrast drain through the Lt. PV was not clearly observed (yellow arrow) on the angiogram.
PA = pulmonary artery; PV = pulmonary vein, Lt. = left; Rt. = right.
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