Hitherto descriptions of some 200 cases of this condition have been published. In the majority of these reports a single case has been presented in detail together with the investigations showing how the diagnosis was made. Some authors have recorded a small series of cases, and in an effort to increase the number there has often tended to be indiscriminate use of the term agenesis. As a result...

Left-sided pulmonary artery agenesis is a rare malformation that commonly requires childhood intervention secondary to associated congenital cardiovascular anomalies. We present an uncommon case of left-sided agenesis with an associated right-sided aortic arch and significant hypoplasia of the ipsilateral lung. Additionally, there is radiographic evidence of emphysema and pulmonary artery hyper...

The combination of pulmonary agenesis and anophtalmia or microphthalmia has been described previously. This condition is known as Matthew-Wood syndrome and PDAC syndrome (pulmonary hypoplasia/ agenesis, diaphragmatic hernia/eventration, anophthalmia/microphthalmia, and cardiac defect). We report a sporadic case of female infant with the combination of bilateral microphthalmia, unilateral right ...

I read with great interest the article by Malcon et al. reporting the occurrence of unilateral pulmonary agenesis in an 8-year-old asymptomatic male child without other associated malformations, and I congratulate the authors on it. I would like to report that we treated a 3-month-old female infant, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who had been born at term and had undergone prenatal te...

Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly. We report the case of an 8-year-old boy with left lung agenesis, without any other congenital malformations. When the patient presented symptoms, including cough, wheezing, and dyspnea, with no clinical improvement after a period of 30 days, imaging studies were conducted and the diagnosis was made.

Unilateral pulmonary artery agenesis with lung hypoplasia is very rare and only a few cases have been reported in the literature. Some patients with hypoplasia may suffer from recurrent hemoptysis dyspnea, and lung infections. Other patients are asymptomatic. Chest X-Ray reveal a reduction in the volume of hemithorax, an elevation in the diaphragm, reduced intercostals spaces and mediastinal sh...

A 17-year-old Japanese woman presented with right chest pain and exertional dyspnea. The patient had a history of isolated unilateral absence of the right pulmonary artery (UAPA) and pulmonary hypertension from early childhood. Chest radiography revealed right-sided pneumothorax and a small lung volume with mediastinal and tracheal shift to the right as well as right diaphragm elevation (Pictur...

Unilateral agenesis of the internal carotid artery (lCA) is a very rare anomaly. Generally, when the ICA is congenitally absent, blood is carried to the affected side through the circle of Willis by the basilar artery and the opposite ICA. We report a case of unilateral agenesis of the ICA in which the affected hemisphere was supplied by an anomalous artery between the cavernous parts of the tw...

Pulmonary agenesis (PA) is a rare congenital anomaly, which may be unilateral or bilateral. Unilateral PA may be associated with nonspecific respiratory symptoms. We report the case of 5-month-old infant who presented a normal development until the age of 4 months when a respiratory infection caused an acute respiratory distress syndrome with a fatal outcome. The autopsy findings depicted the r...