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Scimitar syndrome: MR assessment of hemodynamic significance
C B Henk1, R Prokesch, S Grampp
1Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a case of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the inferior vena cava (scimitar syndrome) in which the hemodynamic significance was noninvasively assessed by means of velocity-encoded cine MR. Left-to-right shunt was calculated from direct blood flow measurements performed in the ascending aorta, main pulmonary artery, and aberrant pulmonary vein.