Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Mimicking a Patent Ductus Arteriosus

Bram Ruijsink; Phuoc Duong; Isra Valverde; Alessandra Frigiola

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.02.013

Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Mimicking a Patent Ductus Arteriosus

JACC Case Rep. 2020 Apr 15;2(4):670-671. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.02.013. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Bram Ruijsink^{1

2}, Phuoc Duong^{1

2}, Isra Valverde^{1

2}, Alessandra Frigiola^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Adult and Paediatric Congenital Heart Diseases, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital and Evelina Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Retrograde systolic flow in the main pulmonary artery (PA) is a hallmark echocardiographic sign of patent ductus arteriosus. We describe a case of PA aneurysm mimicking patent ductus arteriosus flow. Using 4-dimensional flow cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, this echocardiographic feature is explained and altered flow dynamics in the aneurysmal PA are visualized. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Keywords: 4-dimensional phase contrast flow; 4Dflow, 4-dimensional phase contrast flow; CMR, cardiac magnetic resonance; MPA, main pulmonary artery; PDA, patent ductus arteriosus; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; pulmonary artery aneurysm.