A 38-Year-Old Woman with Scimitar Syndrome

Scimitar syndrome is a rare clinical syndrome which consists of anomalous right pulmonary venous return to the inferior vena cava. Scimitar syndrome classically involves the right lung and is most commonly reported in very early infancy. However, it is occasionally seen in adults. We present a 38 ye...

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Autores principales: Aliyali, Masoud, Abdi, Roohollah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4153151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191379
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description Scimitar syndrome is a rare clinical syndrome which consists of anomalous right pulmonary venous return to the inferior vena cava. Scimitar syndrome classically involves the right lung and is most commonly reported in very early infancy. However, it is occasionally seen in adults. We present a 38 year-old woman complaining of dry cough and exertional dyspnea during moderate exercise with right lung scimitar syndrome. The chest radiography showed increased radiolucency of the left lung and heart dextroposition with a characteristic appearance of scimitar sign which is a curvilinear density in the right middle and lower pulmonary fields resembling a curved Turkish sword.
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spelling pubmed-41531512014-09-04 A 38-Year-Old Woman with Scimitar Syndrome Aliyali, Masoud Abdi, Roohollah Tanaffos Case Report Scimitar syndrome is a rare clinical syndrome which consists of anomalous right pulmonary venous return to the inferior vena cava. Scimitar syndrome classically involves the right lung and is most commonly reported in very early infancy. However, it is occasionally seen in adults. We present a 38 year-old woman complaining of dry cough and exertional dyspnea during moderate exercise with right lung scimitar syndrome. The chest radiography showed increased radiolucency of the left lung and heart dextroposition with a characteristic appearance of scimitar sign which is a curvilinear density in the right middle and lower pulmonary fields resembling a curved Turkish sword. National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC4153151/ /pubmed/25191379 Text en Copyright © 2011 National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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