Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding

We report a unique case of dilated aortic root and pulmonary artery in an infant with clinical features consistent with Beals syndrome confirmed to have fibrillin-2 mutation. This case highlights a novel finding of main pulmonary artery dilatation that has not been previously reported with Beals syn...

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Autores principales: Siddiqui, Saira, Panesar, Laurie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143044
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_8_19
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description We report a unique case of dilated aortic root and pulmonary artery in an infant with clinical features consistent with Beals syndrome confirmed to have fibrillin-2 mutation. This case highlights a novel finding of main pulmonary artery dilatation that has not been previously reported with Beals syndrome or fibrillin-2 mutation. In addition, the importance of serial echocardiography and consideration of medical management is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-65216592019-05-29 Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding Siddiqui, Saira Panesar, Laurie Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report We report a unique case of dilated aortic root and pulmonary artery in an infant with clinical features consistent with Beals syndrome confirmed to have fibrillin-2 mutation. This case highlights a novel finding of main pulmonary artery dilatation that has not been previously reported with Beals syndrome or fibrillin-2 mutation. In addition, the importance of serial echocardiography and consideration of medical management is discussed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6521659/ /pubmed/31143044 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_8_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding
title_full Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding
title_fullStr Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding
title_full_unstemmed Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding
title_short Persistent great artery dilatation in Beals syndrome: A novel finding
title_sort persistent great artery dilatation in beals syndrome: a novel finding
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143044
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