Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation

Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital disorder. It has a varied presentation. In adult life, it usually presents either as recurrent chest infection and/or exertional dyspnea. Pulmonary artery hypertension and hemoptysis both are uncommon features of this syndrome in adult life.

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Autores principales: Gupta, Manohar Lal, Bagarhatta, Rajeev, Sinha, Jyotsna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165592
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45202
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Bagarhatta, Rajeev
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description Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital disorder. It has a varied presentation. In adult life, it usually presents either as recurrent chest infection and/or exertional dyspnea. Pulmonary artery hypertension and hemoptysis both are uncommon features of this syndrome in adult life.
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spelling pubmed-28131132010-02-17 Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation Gupta, Manohar Lal Bagarhatta, Rajeev Sinha, Jyotsna Lung India Case Report Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital disorder. It has a varied presentation. In adult life, it usually presents either as recurrent chest infection and/or exertional dyspnea. Pulmonary artery hypertension and hemoptysis both are uncommon features of this syndrome in adult life. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2813113/ /pubmed/20165592 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45202 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, Manohar Lal
Bagarhatta, Rajeev
Sinha, Jyotsna
Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation
title Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation
title_full Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation
title_fullStr Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation
title_full_unstemmed Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation
title_short Scimitar syndrome: A rare disease with unusual presentation
title_sort scimitar syndrome: a rare disease with unusual presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165592
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45202
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