lung perfusion spect: application in a patient with tetralogy of fallot and suspected pulmonary thromboemboli

Lung Perfusion SPECT: Application in a Patient With Tetralogy of Fallot and Suspected Pulmonary Thromboemboli

A 22-year-old woman presented with acute left-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea 6 days after surgery for revision of the stenotic central aortopulmonary shunt. She had a history of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), pulmonary valve stenosis, ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral artery. Her Waterston shunt was placed when she was 5 years old and stented and re-dilated after...

Images in cardiovascular medicine: septic pulmonary thromboemboli in an adolescent with Tetralogy of Fallot.

A 14-year-old adolescent man from the Republic of Congo, with no personal medical history, presented with progressive shortness of breath and exercise limitation. On clinical examination, he had a 3/6 systolic murmur and regular cardiac rhythm, and cyanotic fingers and clubbing, as well. Pulmonary auscultation was normal. No recent episode of fever or shivering or peripheral sign of endocarditi...

Patient with Tetralogy of Fallot

A 5-year-old boy with tetralogy of Fallot, near-atresia of the right ventricular outflow tract and large collateral arteries to the lungs underwent an infundibulectomy without closure of the ventricular septal defect. Further surgery required preliminary reduction of the collateral circulation. The collateral arteries were successfully occluded by metrizimide-filled balloons. There was no chang...

Lung Function, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Capacity and Lung Perfusion in Patients with Corrected Tetralogy of Fallot

Pulmonary ventilation and perfusion abnormalities and ventilation perfusion imbalance in children with pulmonary atresia or extreme tetralogy of Fallot.

Xenon-133 lung ventilation and perfusion scans were done preoperatively after cardiac catheterization and cineangiocardiography in 19 children; 6 had pulmonary atresia with an intact ventricular septum and hypoplastic right ventricle, 4 pulmonary atresia with associated complex univentricular heart, and 9 extreme Tetralogy of Fallot. The four patients with discrepancies in the sizes of the left...

Pulmonary perfusion abnormalities and ventilation-perfusion imbalance in children after total repair of tetralogy of Fallot.

The pulmonary perfusion of 25 children who had total surgical correction of tetralogy of Fallot was evaluated by radionuclide perfusion scans. In addition, 18 had 133Xe ventilation studies. Eighteen of the children previously had palliative systemic-pulmonary shunts; 14 had aortic-pulmonary shunts (Waterston or Potts-Smith) and four had Blalock-Taussig shunts. Seven children had single stage to...