title: [Pulmonary atresia with an intact septum: indications for the neonatal surgical treatment guided by 2-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography].
abstract: Twelve neonates with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum underwent surgical treatment based on two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. Ten patients with adequate morphology of the right ventricular outflow tract portion shown by means of two-dimensional echocardiography underwent pulmonary valvulotomy and systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. Two neonates with atresia of the right ventricular infundibulum on two-dimensional echocardiography underwent systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt without valvulotomy. In all patients the qualitative and quantitative echocardiographic diagnosis was confirmed at surgery and/or with the subsequent angiocardiographic study. Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography is a precise diagnostic method for planning surgical treatment in neonates with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Medico-Chirurgico di Cardiologia Pediatrica, Ospedale Bambino Gesù, Roma.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Gagliardi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Marino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Papa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Corno
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Squitieri
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marcelletti
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Atresia polmonare a setto integro: indicazioni al trattamento chirurgico neonatale guidato dall'ecocardiografia bidimensionale e Doppler.