A 56-day old baby girl referred for recurrent respiratory tract infections and stridor, showed a rare association of a Cor Triatriatum Sinister (CTS) and a right Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (PAPVR), in the form of a stenosed Scimitar vein, draining the right pulmonary veins to the subdiaphragmatic inferior vena cava (IVC), on echography and angiography. The baby underwent successf...

There are multiple cardiac etiologies for wheezing and respiratory distress which require a high degree of suspicion for the pediatrician to diagnose. We present a case of a patient with a history of long-standing mild persistent asthma with minimal improvement on controller and bronchodilator therapies who presented to the emergency room with acute respiratory distress. When he demonstrated a ...

Ivemark syndrome is a rare anomaly with a reported incidence of 1 in 10000 – 20000 live births. It is characterized by agenesis of spleen, a dextropozed, hypoplastic or lobulated spleen or multiple spleens in association with complex cardiac anomalies. These malformations are usually associated with trilobulated or bilobulated lungs and abnormalities of other abdominal organs. Here we report a ...

Background: Cor triatriatum is a rare congenital cardiac malformation. Prevalence only around 0.1% of the diagnosed cardiovascular malformations. Historically prevalence has been described 0.4% in autopsies patients with heart disease. It characterized by presence membrane, usually, endocardium and fibro-muscular tissue within one atrial chambers, dividing it into two, thereby giving appearance...