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Anomalous left pulmonary artery origin from internal carotid artery: prospective echocardiographic diagnosis of a previously unknown variant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2015

Poonam P. Thankavel*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Laura C. Martho
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Ilana Zeltser
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Texas, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: Dr P. P. Thankavel, MD, Division of Pediatric Cardiology UT Southwestern Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas 1935 Medical District Dr Dallas, TX 75235, United States of America. Tel: (214) 456-2333; Fax: (214) 456-8066; Email: [email protected]

Abstract

We present a neonate with dextrocardia, tetralogy of Fallot, right arch, and aberrant left subclavian artery with left pulmonary artery origin from the left internal carotid artery, which is previously unreported.

Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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