title: The assessment of the proximal left pulmonary artery by transesophageal echocardiography and computed tomography in neonates and infants: a case series.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. sktai@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: C I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lue
mesh_terms: 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