title: Congenital unilateral absence of the left pulmonary artery. Echocardiography in reverse.
abstract: This study demonstrates that when the heart is markedly displaced posteriorly to the left, or perhaps to the right, the posterior approach may make echocardiographic evaluation possible. Thus, in a patient with congenital unilateral absence of the left pulmonary artery, with marked displacement of the heart posteriorly, it was possible to obtain a satisfactory echocardiogram "in reverse" from the back, whereas no echoes were obtainable from the standard anterior positions.
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*