Pulmonary Valve Atresia With Intact Ventricular Septum a Series of Ten Cases Examined by Selective Angiocardiography

Abstract

SYNOPSIS Ten cases of pulmonary valve atresia with intact ventricular septum have been studied by selective angiocardiography during the last 3 years. An awareness of the clinical features and chest radiograph appearances of this condition may lead to prompt angiocardiography and perhaps to a happier prognosis than is now the case.

Absent sixth aortic arch: a form of pulmonary atresia.

“…Angiograms show a well-defined infundibulum of the right ventricle ending blindly at valve level, and retrograde filling via a patent ductus of a normal pulmonary arterial system distal to the obstructed pulmonary valve (Grattan-Smith et al, 1966).…”