Table 1 Extracardiac findings found in 32 pediatric patients with CHD
From: CT of cardiac and extracardiac vascular anomalies: embryological implications
Location | Organ no. of findings | Extracradiac findings | No. of patients with extracardiac findings |
|---|---|---|---|
Vascular (50 findings) | Aorta and its branches (21 findings) | Aortic coarctation | 7 |
| Â | Â | Hypoplastic aortic arch | 2 |
| Â | Â | Right-sided aortic arch | 3 |
| Â | Â | Small aneurysmal dilatation between aortic arch and LSCV | 1 |
| Â | Â | Common origin of brachiocephalic artery and Left CCA | 2 |
| Â | Â | Left-sided aortic arch in situs inversus totalis | 1 |
| Â | Â | Double aortic arch | 1 |
| Â | Â | Mild ectasia of the aortic root | 1 |
| Â | Â | Mildly dilated ascending aorta | 1 |
| Â | Coronary arteries | Anomalous origin of RCA from pulmonary artery | 1 |
| Â | Â | Dual LAD with prepulmonic course | 1 |
| Â | Pulmonary artery and its branches (6 findings) | Dilated MPA or its main branches | 1 |
| Â | Â | Hypoplastic MPA or its main branches | 2 |
| Â | Â | Kink of origin of RPA | 1 |
| Â | Â | Absent left pulmonary artery | 1 |
| Â | Â | Stenotic origin of LPA | 1 |
| Â | Systemic venous drainage (8 findings) | Persistent Left SVC | 2 |
| Â | Â | Left-sided IVC with infra-hepatic interruption and azygous continuation | 1 |
| Â | Â | Congested IVC and hepatic veins | 3 |
| Â | Â | Lt SVC draining into dilated coronary sinus | 1 |
| Â | Â | Persistent Rt SVC in case of situs inverses totalis | 1 |
| Â | Pulmonary venous drainage (4 findings) | PAPVD | 3 |
| Â | Â | Supernumerary left pulmonary veins | 1 |
| Â | PDA(6) | PDA | 6 |
| Â | Collaterals (5) | MAPCAs | 5 |
Abdomen (12 findings) | Liver (7 findings) | Midline/left-sided liver | 3 |
| Â | Â | Congested liver | 3 |
| Â | Â | Hepatic focal lesions | 1 |
| Â | Spleen (3 findings) | Polysplenia | 1 |
| Â | Â | Right sided spleen | 2 |
| Â | Stomach (2 findings) | Right/midline stomach | 2 |
Thorax (14 findings) | Lung (11 findings) | Consolidation patches | 10 |
| Â | Â | Basal interstitial lung changes | 1 |
| Â | Tracheobronchial tree (3 findings) | Bilateral long hyparterial bronchi | 1 |
| Â | Â | Mirror imaging branching of airway | 2 |