The assessment of the proximal left pulmonary artery by transesophageal echocardiography and computed tomography in neonates and infants: a case series.
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is often used during surgical repair of congenital heart disease. In our case series of 256 newborns and infants, we found that a left paracarinal view of TEE could visualize the proximal left pulmonary artery, a frequent blind spot for TEE, in most patients, except in a few cases with anatomic variations of the esophagus in the right lateral to the vertebra.
Tsai
S K
SK
Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. sktai@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw
Chang
C I
CI
Wang
M J
MJ
Chen
S J
SJ
Chiu
I S
IS
Chen
Y S
YS
Lue
H C
HC
D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed