@Article{CHD.2021.015371,
AUTHOR = {Elio Caruso, Silvia Farruggio, Davide Calvaruso, David Fabio Petruccelli, David Angel Ortiz Ruiz, Corrado Di Mambro, Salvatore Agati},
TITLE = {Management of “Wall to Wall Heart” in a Transient Neonatal Tricuspid Regurgitation},
JOURNAL = {Structural and Congenital Heart Disease},
VOLUME = {16},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {205--210},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/schd/v16n3/41676},
ISSN = {3071-1738},
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 necessary to restore anterograde pulmonary flow and heart size.},
DOI = {10.32604/CHD.2021.015371}
}