Congenital pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect: angiographic and surgical correlates.
Of 181 patients with severe congenital pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect or "type IV truncus" (an obsolete term), all but 11% had true central pulmonary arteries. These arteries were demonstrable by large serial biplane angiograms using multiple selective injections into collateral vessels, frequent photographic subtraction, and occasional pulmonary vein-wedge angiograms. These techniques are extremely important for accurate diagnosis and in planning corrective or palliative surgery, which was done in 77% of patients with pulmonary arteries.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging