Imaging of Congenital Subclavian Artery to Subclavian Vein Fistula in a Newborn.
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2014-10
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The purpose of this paper is to report a congenital subclavian artery to subclavian vein
fistula in a three weeks old male infant who presented with congestive heart failure and
pulmonary hypertension. He had been scanned by various imaging modalities including
echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, diagnostic cardiac catheterization,
cardiac magnetic resonance angiocardiography and cranial computed tomoangiography.
He had successful surgical ligation after failure of device occlusion trial at age of 9
months.
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Congenital fistula, subclavian artery, subclavian vein, imaging modalities
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Al‑Biltagi Mohammed A, Al-Mousily Faris, Baho Haysam, Kary Salah. Imaging of Congenital Subclavian Artery to Subclavian Vein Fistula in a Newborn. Cardiology and Angiology An International Journal. 2014 Oct-Dec: 2(4): 180-192.