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Pulmonary artery to left atrial fistula: haemodynamic changes traced from fetus to infancy until its interventional closure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2018

Kothandam Sivakumar  and
Del-Rossi Sean
Kothandam Sivakumar*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India
Del-Rossi Sean
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India
*
Author for correspondence: Dr K. Sivakumar, MD, DM, Head of Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, 4A, Dr J J Nagar, Mogappair, Chennai 600089, India. Tel: +91 9444449966; Fax: +91 44 26565859; E-mail: drkumarsiva@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Communications between the pulmonary artery and left atrium cause cyanosis. The images document serial haemodynamic changes in such a fistula from fetal life to the postnatal period with a successful transcatheter intervention.

Keywords

Pulmonary artery to left atrial fistulacyanosisdevice closurefetal echocardiographyhaemodynamics

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Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 28 , Issue 10 , October 2018 , pp. 1154 - 1156
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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