The clinical, pathological, and electrocardiographic findings in congenital pulmonary atresia with intact septum have been reviewed recently by Elliott, Adams, and Edwards (1963). Among their 12 cases, the x-ray examinations on 10 were available for this study. The most characteristic appearance on the frontal chest radiograph in pulmonary atresia is the diminution in the size of the pulmonary ...

Mark Weber was a graduate student in the pediatric critical care nurse practitioner program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia when this article was written. He is now a nurse practitioner in the pediatric intensive care unit at West Virginia University Hospital in Morgantown, WV. enlarged size of the heart. Physical examination revealed diaphoresis, jugular venous distention, S3...