Prenatal findings and differential diagnosis of scimitar syndrome and pulmonary sequestration

Abstract

Objectives

Congenital cystic lung disease: prenatal ultrasound and postnatal multidetector computer tomography evaluation. Correlation with surgical and pathological data

“…In reconstruction (d) shows the systemic arterial supply (white arrow) and the pulmonary venous drainage (white arrowhead). Low power view of intralobar sequestration (e) shows pleural fibrosis and mild inflammatory changes in pulmonary parenchyma with mucus in some alveoli (H&E, 940) the literature, the diagnostic accuracy of this method ranges between 56 and 77 %, very similar to our results [10,[15][16][17].…”

Prenatal diagnosis of total and partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection: multicenter cohort study and meta‐analysis

“…SS and PAPVC cases were excluded from the meta‐analysis, but included in the systematic review. The characteristics of the studies reporting on SS are reported in Table S2 and of those on PAPVC in Tables S3 and S4.…”

“…A total of 15 studies 5,8,9,12,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] , including the present one, reporting on 71 patients were included in the systematic review and meta-analysis. Three additional studies [28][29][30] were included only in the systematic review and not in the meta-analysis. Characteristics of patients with a postnatally validated diagnosis of TAPVC are reported in Tables 1-3.…”

Electron Delocalization Explains much of the Branching and Protobranching Stability

“…Interestingly, Van de Laar recently described prenatal findings in a family with congenital pulmonary vein stenosis; three had markedly increased nuchal translucency (7–11 mm), and one had severe hydrops and pleural effusions14. Bhide and colleagues15 also showed that obstructed partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in pulmonary sequestration can lead to pleural effusions large enough to require fetal intervention for hydrops. Indeed, obstructed TAPVC may prove to be a rare cause of increased nuchal translucency and/or pleural effusions in fetuses.…”