Scimitar syndrome: MR assessment of hemodynamic significance.
We report a case of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the inferior vena cava (scimitar syndrome) in which the hemodynamic significance was noninvasively assessed by means of velocity-encoded cine MR. Left-to-right shunt was calculated from direct blood flow measurements performed in the ascending aorta, main pulmonary artery, and aberrant pulmonary vein.
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Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Prokesch
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Grampp
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Strasser
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Mostbeck
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012587:Scimitar Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed