Recognition of functional pulmonary atresia by color Doppler echocardiography.
Vigorous crying aids right ventricular ejection into the pulmonary artery. This phenomenon can differentiate functional pulmonary atresia from anatomic pulmonary atresia.
Lee
C L
CL
Department of Pediatrics, Veterans General Hospital-Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Hsieh
K S
KS
Huang
T C
TC
Lin
C C
CC
Choong
C S
CS
D003448:Crying; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right