Cardiac distribution of alpha-hANP in an infant with total anomalous pulmonary venous return.
Atrial natriuretic polypeptide like immunoreactivity (irANP) was searched in the right and left atrial and ventricles following necropsy of a 2-month-old boy who underwent anesthesia for radical surgery to total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR), who could not be removed from a cardiopulmonary bypass. The irANP concentration was 630 micrograms.g-1 in the right atrium, 3.2 micrograms.g-1 in the right ventricule in 1 100 micrograms.g-1 in the left atrium and 1.7 micrograms.g-1 in the left ventricle, respectively in spite of numerous studies reported that ir ANP cannot be detected in adult ventricles.
Sakai
T
T
Tanioka
F
F
Kudoh
T
T
Oyama
T
T
Matsuki
A
A
D001028:Aortopulmonary Septal Defect / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000032:analysis*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000032:analysis*
D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor