Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Vein Varix
2003; Japanese Circulation Society; Volume: 67; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1253/circj.67.796
ISSN1347-4820
AutoresJun Shiraishi, Tetsuya Tatsumi, Masaki Kimata, Daisuke Kambayashi, Akiko Mano, Satoshi Yamanaka, Miyuki Kobara, Akihiro Azuma, Masao Nakagawa,
Tópico(s)Vascular anomalies and interventions
ResumoPulmonary vein varix is a rare abnormality, often resembling a pulmonary or mediastinal mass on chest radiographs, and pulmonary angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosis. An unusual case of pulmonary vein varix was clearly defined by echocardiography performed in a 47-year-old woman with chest discomfort who had been found to have an abnormal structure behind the cardiac silhouette on a chest radiograph. The diagnosis of left lower pulmonary vein varix was noninvasively confirmed by transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography. (Circ J 2003; 67: 796 - 798)
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