@Article{Murlewska2019,
journal="Prenatal Cardiology",
issn="2449-6723",
number="1",
year="2019",
title="Prenatal dilatation of the pulmonary artery in the
third trimester – important information for paediatric
cardiologist or for neonatologist? Case report",
abstract="We present a case of dilated main pulmonary artery diameter with accompanying cardiac anomalies and postnatal follow-up. The abnormalities in the left side of the heart concerned the left superior vena cava (LSVC), decreased left ventricular contractility SF LV (shortening fraction), and narrowing/accelerating flows through the aortic valve and aortic arch isthmus. In our case, coarctation of the aorta was suspected both pre- and postnatally due to the dominant picture of the accelerated flow velocities, but the patient did not require neonatal surgery. Based on a retrospective review of the case, we tried to explain our prenatal and early postnatal findings. After the exclusion of the structural congenital heart defects as a base of the dilatation of the main pulmonary artery, we should consider other pathophysiological mechanisms presented in the following report.",
author="Murlewska, Julia
and Pekasiewicz, Joanna
and Respondek-Liberska, Maria",
pages="61--65",
doi="10.5114/pcard.2019.92712",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pcard.2019.92712"
}