The assessment of the proximal left pulmonary artery by transesophageal echocardiography and computed tomography in neonates and infants: a case series |
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| Authors: | Tsai S K Chang C I Wang M J Chen S J Chiu I S Chen Y S Lue H C |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. sktai@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw |
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| Abstract: | IMPLICATIONS: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is often used during surgical repair of congenital heart disease. In our case series of 256 newborns and infants, we found that a left paracarinal view of TEE could visualize the proximal left pulmonary artery, a frequent blind spot for TEE, in most patients, except in a few cases with anatomic variations of the esophagus in the right lateral to the vertebra. |
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