%0 Journal Article
%T Breathless at the Point of a Sword
%A Pooja Sethi
%A Terry Forest
%A Timir Paul
%A Zia Ur Rahman
%J Archive of "North American Journal of Medical Sciences".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/1947-2714.175226
%X Scimitar syndrome is a congenital anomaly of pulmonary venous return where right pulmonary artery drains into right side other heart, instead of the left side, causing pulmonary hypertension resulting in shortness of breath, recurrent lower respiratory tract infections, chest pain, and fatigue. Early diagnosis and surgical intervention would correct this congenital anomaly reducing morbidity and complications in otherwise healthy young patients
%K Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) chest
%K pulmonary venous return
%K scimitar
%K scimitar syndrome
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784185/