Echocardiographic assessment of a blalock-taussig shunt

✍ Scribed by Dr. Milton Reitman; Herbert Goldberg; Gayle Boris; Alvin Bakst; Regina Gluck

• Book ID: 102326410
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 311 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870060118

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A case of echocardiographic confirmation of the patency of a Blalock‐Taussig anastomosis is presented. Using the left atrium‐to‐aortic ratio (LA/Ao), we could document an increase in left atrial size representing an increase in pulmonary blood flow. This is the first report using echocardiography to prove the patency of a systemic‐to‐pulmonary artery anastomosis.