Intrapulmonary agenesis of venous system and bronchopulmonary arterial anastomosis

Br Heart J. 1991 Aug;66(2):182-4. doi: 10.1136/hrt.66.2.182.

Abstract

Agenesis of the intrapulmonary and extrapulmonary veins of the right lung was found by angiography and histological examination in a three year old boy. Blood supplied by the intersegmental arteries drained via the pulmonary arteries of the right lung into main and left pulmonary arteries. This caused a shunt between the aorta and pulmonary artery. Agenesis of the pulmonary venous system as a cause of left to right shunt has not been reported before.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / diagnostic imaging*
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / pathology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung / pathology
  • Male
  • Pulmonary Veins / abnormalities*
  • Radiography