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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Unilateral pulmonary vein atresia: diagnostic dilemma unfolded on imaging
  1. Basavaraj Biradar,
  2. Arun Sharma,
  3. Amarinder Singh Malhi,
  4. Sanjeev Kumar
  1. Department of Cardiovascular Radiology & Endovascular Interventions, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Arun Sharma, drarungautam{at}gmail.com

Summary

Unilateral pulmonary vein atresia is a rare entity, usually congenital in origin. It is thought to result from failure of incorporation of common pulmonary vein to left atrium. Patients often present with recurrent chest infections and haemoptysis during infancy or early childhood. Associated anomalies are commonly present in these cases. Pulmonary angiography is generally used for definitive diagnosis; however, characteristic imaging findings on latest multislice CT can be virtually diagnostic.

  • cardiovascular medicine
  • interventional cardiology

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-224154

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    Footnotes

    • BB, AS, ASM and SK contributed equally.

    • Contributors BB, ASM, AS and SK were involved in planning, conduct, reporting, conception and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data. All authors made a significant contribution to the study. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Disclaimer The paper is not under consideration elsewhere. None of the paper’s contents have been previously published.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.