Dixit Rashmi, Kumar Jyoti, Chowdhury Veena, Rajeshwari Krishnan, Sethi Gulshan Rai
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi - 110002, India.
Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2011 Oct;21(4):253-6. doi: 10.4103/0971-3026.90681.
Unilateral pulmonary venous atresia is an uncommon entity that is generally believed to be congenital. Most patients present in infancy or childhood with recurrent chest infections or hemoptysis. Pulmonary angiography is usually used for definitive diagnosis. However, the current multislice CT scanners may obviate the need for pulmonary angiography. We report two cases diagnosed using 128-slice CT angiography. On the CT angiography images both these cases demonstrated absent pulmonary veins on the affected side, with a small pulmonary artery and prominent bronchial or other systemic arterial supply.
单侧肺静脉闭锁是一种罕见的疾病，通常被认为是先天性的。大多数患者在婴儿期或儿童期出现反复的胸部感染或咯血。肺血管造影通常用于明确诊断。然而，目前的多层螺旋CT扫描仪可能无需进行肺血管造影。我们报告了两例使用128层CT血管造影诊断的病例。在CT血管造影图像上，这两例病例均显示患侧肺静脉缺如，肺动脉细小，支气管或其他体循环动脉供血明显。
