Unilateral congenital stenosis of the pulmonary veins

Congenital stenosis of individual pulmonary veins.

CONGENITAL STENOSIS of individual pulmonary veins as they join the left atrium is a rare cause of pulmonary venous and arterial hypertension. Cases have been reported by Reye,1 Ferencz and Dammann,2 Andrews,3 Bernstein and associates,4 and Edwards.5' 6 Emslie-Smith and associates7 reported a patient with membranous occlusion of the pulmonary veins associated with pulmonary hypertension. The pur...

Extrapulmonic stenosis of the pulmonary veins.

Congenital unilateral nasal aperture stenosis.

Congenital nasal aperture stenosis is an unusual cause of upper airway obstruction among neonates, and rarely presents as unilateral. Most commonly presents as choanal atresia. A CT evaluation is essential to confirm the diagnosis. Both surgical and conservative management can be applied, based on the severity of the associated clinical presentation; however, the very rare unilateral condition ...

Congenital Stenosis of the Pulmonary Artery Branches.

CONGENITAL stenosis of the pulmonary artery branches is an anomaly characterized by narrowed segments of one or more of the main or peripheral branches of the pulmonary artery. Such conditions lhave been variously labeled pulmonary coaretation,' peripheral pulmonary stenosis,2 and multiple peripheral stenoses 3 of the pulmonary artery. Several cases of this anomaly have appeared in the literatu...

Unilateral absence or extreme hypoplasia of pulmonary veins.