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Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction chest x ray
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Among patients with right ventricular outflow obstruction, the chest X-ray shows post-stenotic dilation of the pulmonary artery.
Chest X ray
Chest X ray
- The chest x-ray findings are:[1][2]
- Right ventricular enlargement
- Right atrial enlargement
- Chen sign: vascular fullness at the left lung base more-so than the right lung base due to preferential flow of turbulent jet into the left pulmonary artery.
References
References
- ↑ Thorne, Sara (2017). Adult congenital heart disease. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198759959.
- ↑ Chen JT, Robinson AE, Goodrich JK, Lester RG (October 1969). “Uneven distribution of pulmonary blood flow between left and right lungs in isolated valvular pulmonary stenosis”. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med. 107 (2): 343–50. PMID 5823902.
- ↑ <a href=”https://radiopaedia.org/“>Radiopaedia.org</a>. From the case <a href=”https://radiopaedia.org/cases/17885“>rID: 17885</a>
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