All issues > Volume 40(11); 1997

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1997;40(11):1611-1615. Published online November 15, 1997.

A Case of Pulmonary Artery Sling

Mi Hee MH Oh¹, Il Tae IT Whang¹, Ghee Young GY Jung¹, Doo Bong DB Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatics, St. Francisco General Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Pulmonary artery sling is a rare vascular anomaly in which the left pulmonary artery arises from the right pulmonary artery and then traverses between the esophagus and the trachea toward the hilum of the left lung. Despite the availability of a corrective operation, the mortality rate remains very high due to the high incidence of associated obstructive anomalies of tracheobronchial trees. We experienced a 8 month old female infant who was admitted because of recurrent pneumonia and expiratory wheezing. She was diagnosed as pulmonary sling by esophagography, echocardiography, computed tomography. We report this with a brief review and related literature.

Keywords :Pulmonary artery sling