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| Autor: | Sajit Nedungadi, Devdeep Mukherjee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male
Catheterization Central Venous medicine.medical_specialty Neonatal intensive care unit Images In… Computed Tomography Angiography Iohexol medicine.medical_treatment Urinary Bladder Contrast Media Dextrocardia 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intensive Care Units Neonatal Humans Medicine Continuous positive airway pressure medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Vaginal delivery Infant Newborn Abdominal Cavity General Medicine Acute Kidney Injury medicine.disease Surgery Treatment Outcome medicine.anatomical_structure Great arteries Angiography Abdomen business Pulmonary atresia |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Case Rep |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bcr-2018-226024 |
| Popis: | Male neonate was born by normal vaginal delivery at 38 weeks. He was antenatally diagnosed to have dextrocardia, congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries, moderate ventricular septal defect and pulmonary atresia. He was born in good condition and cried at birth. However, he was noted to have saturation of 65%–70% in air and started on continuous positive airway pressure and transferred to neonatal intensive care unit for further monitoring. Postnatal echocardiography confirmed the diagnosis, and he was started on prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) at 5 nanogram/kg/min. On day 3 of life, he underwent a cardiac gated CT angiography (CTA) for further understanding of anatomy and confirmation of diagnosis. In view of need for PGE1 until transfer to tertiary cardiac surgical centre, a … |
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