Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania

Anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital deformity associated with poor quality of life and reduced life expectancy. Without a corrective surgery, less than one third of cases will live to see their sixth month. We report a case of a 10-month-old m...

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Autores principales: Pallangyo, Pedro, Lyimo, Frederick, Nicholaus, Paulina, Mtolera, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4871194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27231696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616648992
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author Pallangyo, Pedro
Lyimo, Frederick
Nicholaus, Paulina
Mtolera, Maria
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description Anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital deformity associated with poor quality of life and reduced life expectancy. Without a corrective surgery, less than one third of cases will live to see their sixth month. We report a case of a 10-month-old male child from Tanzania who presented with a 6-month history of recurrent respiratory tract infections, mild effort intolerance, and failure to thrive.
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spelling pubmed-48711942016-05-26 Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania Pallangyo, Pedro Lyimo, Frederick Nicholaus, Paulina Mtolera, Maria J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital deformity associated with poor quality of life and reduced life expectancy. Without a corrective surgery, less than one third of cases will live to see their sixth month. We report a case of a 10-month-old male child from Tanzania who presented with a 6-month history of recurrent respiratory tract infections, mild effort intolerance, and failure to thrive. SAGE Publications 2016-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4871194/ /pubmed/27231696 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616648992 Text en © 2016 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Mtolera, Maria
Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania
title Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania
title_full Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania
title_fullStr Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania
title_short Anomalous Origin of the Right Pulmonary Artery From the Ascending Aorta in a 10-Month-Old Child: A Case Report From Tanzania
title_sort anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta in a 10-month-old child: a case report from tanzania
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4871194/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616648992
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