An infant with respiratory distress.
Infants with previously undiagnosed cardiac conditions may present to the emergency department with nonspecific signs and respiratory symptoms. These patients may be erroneously diagnosed as having bronchiolitis. We report a 2-month-old female infant who presented with respiratory distress and showed no improvement with nebulized albuterol treatment. This infant was found to have anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
Ali
Irfan
I
Department of Pediatrics, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY 10457, USA.
Waseem
Muhammad
M
Augustine
Gerrad
G
Kulkarni
Aparna
A
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*