Elio Caruso*, Silvia Farruggio, Davide Calvaruso, David Fabio Petruccelli, David Angel Ortiz Ruiz, Corrado Di Mambro, Salvatore Agati
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 205-210, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.015371
Abstract We present a case of a one-day-old newborn, without prenatal diagnosis, referred to our cardiologic intensive care unit in critical condition presenting sub-cyanosis and peripheral oxygen saturation of 80%. Echocardiography diagnosis was tricuspid valve dysplasia with severe regurgitation, functional pulmonary valve atresia with intact ventricular septum and reversal flow in the large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Chest X-ray showed severe cardiomegaly and wall to wall heart. Prostaglandin E1 infusion was started once after birth. After few days, clinical conditions progressively worsened because of right heart failure; a first pharmacological approach to close PDA failed and surgery ligation of PDA was… More >
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