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Unusual right pulmonary artery–to-left atrial communication associated with scimitar syndrome
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- Advanced Imaging
Asish R. Mohakud, Sangamesh Bawage, Kothandam Sivakumar
Journal:

Cardiology in the Young / Volume 31 / Issue 6 / June 2021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

04 February 2021, pp. 1048-1050
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Right pulmonary artery to left atrial fistula is classified based on the right pulmonary artery branching, individual right pulmonary venous drainage, and presence of an aneurysmal segment. A rare association with scimitar syndrome and right lung devoid of blood supply from right pulmonary artery is described in this report. The anatomical and management differences between the different types are highlighted.

15.1 - Fetal lung growth, development, and lung fluid
from Section 2 - Fetal disease
- By Richard Harding, Foula Sozo, Takushi Hanita, Cheryl Albuquerque
Edited by Mark D. Kilby, Anthony Johnson, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, Dick Oepkes
Book:

Fetal Therapy

Published online:

05 February 2013

Print publication:

13 December 2012, pp 271-281
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This chapter focuses on how normal lung development is regulated before birth, and how it is affected by the intrauterine environment. Lung development is completed during early postnatal life; therefore, after infancy there is limited scope for repairing abnormal lung development. At least four or five distinct stages of lung development are recognized, based on microscopic appearance: these are the embryonic, pseudoglandular, canalicular, and saccular-alveolar stages. A final stage of microvascular maturation can also be recognized. For the lung to develop normally it must be able to expand to a higher degree than is seen after birth; this requires adequate intrathoracic space, fetal breathing movements (FBM), and the ongoing production of lung liquid across the airway epithelium. Changes in the environment of the developing lung that chronically affect the degree of lung expansion will result in either lung hypoplasia or hyperplasia.

Tetralogy of Fallot associated with scimitar syndrome
Nawal Azhari, Fadel Al-Fadley, Ziad R. Bulbul
Journal:

Cardiology in the Young / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / January 2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

19 August 2008, pp. 70-72
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We present a case of tetralogy of Fallot associated with Scimitar syndrome. The patient was an 11-month old female who underwent successfully total repair of her lesion, including rerouting of the anomalous pulmonary vein to the left atrium. The diagnosis was suspected from the chest x-ray and echocardiography, and confirmed by angiography. To the best of our knowledge only 2 additional cases have previously been reported.