Pulmonary artery sarcomas are rarely seen and frequently misdiagnosed as pulmonary thromboembolic disease due to the presence of similar clinical manifestations and radiologic findings. As making the certain diagnosis is very important in order to determine the treatment strategy, one needs close follow-up to make a definite diagnosis. However, most of the cases are diagnosed during the surgery...

BACKGROUND The study objective was to evaluate the role of transesophageal echocardiography in identifying the origin of anomalous coronary arteries and confirming their course in relation to the great vessels. The diagnosis of coronary anomalies is made by angiography. The anomalous left main artery with a course between the pulmonary artery and the aorta has been associated with myocardial in...

A 30-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with incidental chest pain. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography revealed a dilated vessel in front of the aorta. Color-f low Doppler echocardiographic imaging showed a retrograde, chief ly diastolic f low from near the pulmonary valve into the main pulmonary artery (Fig. 1) and adequate intercoronary collateral vessels within the ventric...

A 17-year old man was referred with Syncope. Echocardiography suggested a mass in the main pulmonary artery. A comprehensive cardiac magnetic resonance was performed. The mass was attached to the intima of the pulmonary artery. The diagnosis of thrombus was excluded. Finally, the mass was resected successfully and pathology confirmed the diagnosis (Fig. 1, Supplementary Videos S1 and S2). Suppl...

OBJECTIVE Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is one of the severe congenital pulmonary anomaly (PA) associated with pulmonary hypoplasia, pulmonary sequestration and severe respiratory distress. The aim of this study was to present difference between measurements of the size of fetal pulmonary artery and pulmonary branches (PB) in normal growth fetuses and comparison with the same in fetuses with ...