Coarctation
15-jähriger Patient mit postduktaler Coarctation der Aorta
15-jähriger Patient mit postduktaler Coarctation der Aorta
This 7 year old infant had undergone an arterial Switch Operation of the great arteries in 1994. At the same time, a ballon PTA was carried out successfully to dilate a severe stenosis of the right branch of the pulmonary artery. However, the left side stenosis could not be dilated successfully. In the year 2002 … Read more
Left Main Stem Originating from the Right Coronary Sinus A 55 year old woman presented herself to a cardiologist because of atypical chest pain. She had no cardiovascular risk factors. Her exercise test reveiled down sloping ST segment depression of 2 mm. On coronary angiography, an anomalous origin of the left main stem from the … Read more
We also obtained a Gadolinium based chest angiography (contrast enhanced FFE image), which shows contrast in the superior caval vein and blood supplied from a 5th right pulmonary vein. The shunt was calculated with QF and analysed with FLOW from www.medis.nl. The shunt volume was 1:4.2.